Vitis vinifera L.
Bideira, Common Grapevine, European Grape, European wine grape
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Summary
Vitis vinifera, the common grape vine, is a species of flowering plant, native to the Mediterranean region, Central Europe, and southwestern Asia, from Morocco and Portugal north to southern Germany and east to northern Iran. As of 2012, there were between 5,000 and 10,000 varieties of Vitis vinifera grapes though only a few are of commercial significance for wine and table grape production.
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About the genus · Vitis
Vitis (grapevine) is a genus of about 80 species of twining plants in the family Vitaceae. The genus consists of species predominantly from the Northern Hemisphere. It is economically important as the source of grapes, both for direct consumption of the fruit and for fermentation to produce wine. More on Wikipedia ›
The opening of Wikipedia, “Vitis”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.
At a glance
Also known as ? austriaca Dierb.; ? clavennensis Dierb.; ? macrocarpa Dierb.; ? tinctoria Dierb.; ? tyrolensis Dierb. and 45 more.
Cultivation
Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (September to January and May to July in the northern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.
The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (573 mm of 809 mm) takes 8 months, September to January and May to July. Mean temperature moves 16.9 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to January and March to July.
Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain Habitat rain 809 mm a year, wettest December at 78 mm, driest April at 55 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
809 mm a year at the habitat, 573 mm of it September to January and May to July. Wettest month December at 78 mm, driest April at 55 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 594 mm to 1220 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light Open sky over the habitat: 7 to 37 mol/m²/day.
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Open sky over the habitat: 7 to 37 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 4, the highest 90th-percentile month 46).
CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Warmth and air Cold floor -8.7 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -8.7 °C, the absolute minimum -21.9 °C, about 62 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 30.3 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 0.3 °C in January (across the envelope cells -5.4 °C to 5.8 °C), warmest day 24.4 °C in July (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -8.7 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).
NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 58 to 67% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 6 / 2–11 | 7 / 4–11 | 10 / 8–14 | 14 / 13–17 | 19 / 17–22 | 22 / 20–26 | 24 / 22–29 | 24 / 22–29 | 20 / 18–24 | 15 / 13–20 | 10 / 7–15 | 6 / 3–12 |
| Night °C | 0 / -5–6 | 0 / -4–6 | 3 / -0–8 | 5 / 4–10 | 9 / 8–14 | 13 / 11–18 | 15 / 14–21 | 15 / 14–21 | 12 / 10–18 | 8 / 6–14 | 4 / 1–10 | 1 / -4–7 |
| Rain mm | 70 / 36–110 | 57 / 35–98 | 61 / 39–104 | 55 / 41–95 | 67 / 47–104 | 72 / 29–96 | 65 / 15–96 | 63 / 26–91 | 68 / 47–110 | 77 / 41–132 | 76 / 47–142 | 78 / 47–139 |
| DLI | 8 / 5–13 | 14 / 10–19 | 21 / 17–27 | 30 / 27–35 | 35 / 32–41 | 37 / 33–45 | 36 / 33–46 | 32 / 28–41 | 24 / 19–31 | 15 / 12–21 | 9 / 6–14 | 7 / 4–11 |
| RH % | 66 / 59–68 | 63 / 58–66 | 61 / 57–63 | 59 / 56–61 | 59 / 56–61 | 59 / 54–62 | 58 / 52–61 | 58 / 54–61 | 61 / 57–63 | 63 / 59–65 | 66 / 59–68 | 67 / 59–69 |
Each figure is the median across the 330 grid cells holding the 391 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 780:3708 (50.975, 5.425). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -21.9 °C, 1st-percentile night -8.7 °C, 99th-percentile day 30.3 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 330 distinct grid cells holding the 391 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 780:3708 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 51.00_5.625, lapse-corrected -16 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 55 m (cell mean).
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: (c) zebedeugalinha, some rights reserved (CC BY) (8).
Photographs: iNaturalist and GBIF media did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Vitis vinifera, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.
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History & registers
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