VITIS BAILEYANA 
V. Baileyana Possum Grape. Slender high climber, densely foliaged: leaves 
broad-ovate and cordate, mostly 3-lobed near apex, dull, at maturity pubescent 
on veins underneath: fruit + inch or less in diameter, shining black. West 
Virginia to Georgia. 
--Hortus Second, 1941 
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V. Baileyana Munson. Leaf blades thinnish but firm, ovate or orbicular-ovate 
5-7 cm long, glabrous and somewhat rugose above in age or pubescent on the nerves 
beneath, toothed, otherwise emtire or angularly 3-lobed near the apex, cordate at 
the base: panicles 8 - 13 cm long, compact: berry globose, 7-10 mm in diameter, 
black, destitute of bloom or nearly so. Woods and mountainous slopes, Blue Ridge 
and Applachain Plateau, Georgia to Alabama and West Virginia. 
Manual of the Southeastern Flora by J. K. Smal] 1933. 
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Vitis Baileyana, Munson. 
Synonyms: 
V. Virginiana, Munson, Bull. No. 3 Dep. Agr. 1890 Garden and Forest 
Oct. 1, 1890, op474-5 
" tPossum Grape". 
Plant: Slender, rather feeble, though hardy, climbing moderately, much ~ 
branched; tips of young growing shoots green, or pale pink, with very little pale 
cottony pubescence, considerably extended beyond fully grown leaves; very leafy, 
owing to the starting of short lateral branches at almost every node, of a lively 
clear green, of a tint between V. cordifolia and V. aestivalis, the young wood 
being of the same shade of green as the under side of the leaves, which is only 
a shade paler than the upper surface, and in the growing plant the lower surface 
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other species, but more like Berlandieri than any other. 
Roots: Thickening downward from collar in one year seedlings and sparingly 
branched, fleshy, transversely wrinkled, resistant to Phylloxera, moderately pen- 
etrating, but not sufficiently to endure the Texas climate well. 

Wood: Young angled, becoming nearly cylindrical at maturity, or obscurely 
angled; finely, but irregularly striated, and smooth, the thin cottony pubescence 
disappearing before close of first season's growth; color when mature pale hazel 
or light brown; rathe& softer than in other species of this series; nodes moder-— 
ately enlarged; diaphragm 1/8" thick, thicker on side next to bud than opposite to 
it; bud sub-conical, acute, same color as mature annual wood, in unfolding pale 
brown at first, first appearance of leaves pinkish green, tip closed; tendrils 
intermittent, mostly bifid, weak, persistent, green when young, with few cottony 
hairs; internodes short, 1" to 4", seldon more; pith large, enlarged much at 
lower end of internode; pale brown. 
