VITIS CANDICANS 
V. candicans Mustang Grape. High strong climber, the young parts white- 
tomentose and leaves (which are broad-ovate and lobed only on vendurous shoots) 
remaining so underneath and dull above; fruit to #" across, purplish, pungent 
in flavor. Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas. 
--— Hortus Second, 1941 
Vitis candicans. Engelmann, Gray's Pl. Lindh., 2:166, 1845. Pl. Wright, 1, p. 2 
(fide Walp. ae 

Ann. Bot. Syst. VII, p. 616. Am. Nat. Aug. 1868. 
Synonym: 
V. Mustangensis, Buckley, Pat. Off. Rep. 1861, p.482; Proc.Acad. 
Sere Foll. 1Sel,, pi4ol 
"Musteng Grape" in Texas. 
Plant: Vigorous, rampant, scarcely tapering, climbing the highest trees; 
making very long annual growth, sometimes 30 or 40 feet. 
- RBs: Very firm and most deeply penetrating of any species. 
Wood: When young more or less angled, densely covered with whitish or 
yellowish dense to cobwebby wool, becoming floccose late in the season, persistent 
till second year. Bark on mature annual wood dull gray-brown, roughish with 
scattering wart-like blisters, finely striated; on old wood persistent, finely 
checked, fibrous; wood rather soft under the shears. Sectional view of annual 
woodeylindrical or oval; rays wide apart, pores between very large and open; 
nodés moderately enlarged, little bent; diaphragm 1/16" to 1/8" or more thick, 
nearly plane; bud small, globose or obscurely three-angled, conical, brown when 
opening, medium pinkish with white wooly covering. Tendrils when well developed 
nearly always twice forked, veryjlarge, strong, clinging well, wooly when young, 
smooth, pale brown and finely striated when mature; internodes medium to long, 2" to 
6", sometimes 8" to 10"; pith medium, dark brown, slightly enlarged at lower end. 
Leaves: Stipules of medium length, broad, blunt, crimson or pink, tomentose; 
petiole 2" to 3" long with indistinct groove, densely wooly; blade of medium size, 
varying in length of midrib from 24" to 5" or more, and in width from 23" to 6" or 
more, average length Zi", average width 4", making a long cordate leaf if it were 
not so open, or nearly truncate at the base, which frequently makes it rounded - 
deltoid in outline and apparently broad for its length; basal sinus broadly 
inverted V_ shaped or truncate,an acute notch at insertion of petiole, even when 
base is truncate; entire or 3 to 5 lobed, border sinuses broad, rounded; summit 
and lobes right angled or acute; teeth short, usually slightly convex, sometimes 
scalloped from point, with mucronate point, notches between shallow, scalloped. 
One of the most striking characteristics of this species is the inverted saucer~like 
shape of blade, being convex toward upper face and attached to petiole at obtuse 
angle so that the dense foliage of the vine growing over the top of a bush or tree 
appears somewhat like a canopy shingled with concavo-convex leaves. Venation 
from the generally 7 opposite or nearly opposite pairs of ribs ~ each of which 
terminates a tooth direct, as in V.6oriacea, - prominent, but obscured by the 
dense wooly felt on the under side, which in young leaves is nearly snow white, 
becoming dull ashy, never rusty with age, persistent; above, the young leaf is 

