🍇VINE STRUCTURE

 VINE STRUCTURE

Roots: anchor the vine, absorb water and nutrients, store carbohydrates, and produce growth-regulating hormones.

Permanent wood: woody parts, older than one year. They provide support, transport water, solutes, and store nutrients and carbohydrates .

Shoots: their major structures are the buds, leaves, tendrils, lateral shoots and inflorescences or grape bunches. 🍇 🍇 🍇 

Grape "Black" (dark blue) and "white" (light green) table grapes: A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis. Grapes are a non-climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters. Deciduous ~ (of a tree or shrub) shedding its leaves annually. To

One-year-old wood: are the prior season's shoots. They support compound buds for the next season's shoots. Can be canes or spurs. 

Concord grapes Concord grapes (Vitis labrusca) ripening on the vine

grape, (genus Vitis), genus of about 60 to 80 species of vining plants in the family Vitaceae, native to the north temperate zone, including varieties that may be eaten as table fruit, dried to produce raisins, or crushed to make grape juice or wine.