Chicken Grape vs Common Grapevine

Vitis vulpina compared with Vitis vinifera

Taxonomic Classification

Rank Chicken Grape Common Grapevine
Kingdom same Plantae (Plants) Plantae (Plants)
Phylum same Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants) Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class same Magnoliopsida (Dicots) Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order same Vitales (Vitales) Vitales (Vitales)
Family same Vitaceae Vitaceae
Genus same Vitis Vitis
Species Vitis vulpina Vitis vinifera

Evolutionary Relationship

Chicken Grape and Common Grapevine share a common ancestor at the Genus level: Vitis.

Conservation Status

Chicken Grape

NE — Not Evaluated

Common Grapevine

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute Chicken Grape Common Grapevine
Diet
Average Lifespan
Average Length
Average Weight

Habitat & Geographic Range

Chicken Grape

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (Armenia), Europe (12 countries), and North America (Canada, United States).

Common Grapevine

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (6 countries), Asia (India, Taiwan, Yemen), Europe (22 countries), North America (Canada, United States), Oceania and the Pacific (5 countries), and South America (5 countries).

Chicken Grape

The Chicken Grape (Vitis vulpina) is a species in the genus Vitis. Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Common Grapevine

<em>Vitis vinifera</em>, commonly known as the common grapevine, is a woody climbing vine belonging to the genus Vitis within the family Vitaceae. This species occupies diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions and has one of the widest cultivated distributions of any plant species. Its range spans Africa, Asia including India, Taiwan, and Yemen, twenty-two European countries, North America, five Oceanian territories, and five South American nations. Common grapevine is assessed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. The species is of enormous agricultural and cultural significance, being the primary source of wine grapes cultivated globally for millennia. Wild populations typically colonize woodland edges and scrubland. Biological traits of this species remain poorly documented in the scientific literature.

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