Grape

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{| style="margin: 0 0 0.5em 1em; border-collapse:collapse; float:right;" border="1" cellpadding="0" |- style="text-align:center;" ! style="background: lightgreen;" | '''Grape''' |- style="text-align:center;" ! style="background: lightgreen;" | '''Scientific classification''' |- style="text-align:center;" | {| style="margin:0 auto; text-align:left; background:none;" cellpadding="2" |- valign=top |Kingdom:||Plantae |- valign=top |Division:||Magnoliophyta |- valign=top |Class:||Magnoliopsida |- valign=top |Order:||Vitales |- valign=top |Family:||Vitaceae |- valign=top |Genus:||'''Vitis''' |} |- style="text-align:center; background:lightgreen;" !'''Species''' |- | ''Vitis acerifolia''
''Vitis aestivalis''
''Vitis amurensis''
''Vitis arizonica''
''Vitis x bourquina''
''Vitis californica''
''Vitis x champinii''
''Vitis cinerea''
''Vitis x doaniana''
''Vitis girdiana''
''Vitis labrusca''
''Vitis x labruscana''
''Vitis monticola''
''Vitis mustangensis''
''Vitis x novae-angliae''
''Vitis palmata''
''Vitis riparia''
''Vitis rotundifolia''
''Vitis rupestris''
''Vitis shuttleworthii''
''Vitis tiliifolia''
''Vitis vinifera''
''Vitis vulpina'' |} A '''grape''' is the fruit of a vine in the family Vitaceae. It is commonly used for making grape juice, jelly, wine and raisins, or can be eaten raw. Grapes constitute approximately 50% of all fruit grown in the world. Many species of grape exist including: *''Vitis vinifera'', the European winemaking grapes *''Vitis labrusca'', the North American table and grape juice grapes, sometimes used for wine *''Vitis riparia'', a wild grape of North America, sometimes used for winemaking *''Vitis rotundifolia'', the muscadines, used for jelly and sometimes wine *''Vitis aestivalis'', the variety Norton is used for winemaking *''Vitis lincecumii'' (also called ''Vitis aestivalis'' var. lincecumii), ''Vitis berlandieri'' (also called ''Vitis cinerea'' var. helleri), ''Vitis cinerea'', ''Vitis rupestris'' are used for making hybrid wine grapes and for pest-resistant rootstocks. Hybrids also exist, primarily crosses of ''V. vinifera'' with one or more varieties of ''V. labrusca'', ''V. riparia'' or ''V. aestivalis''. Hybrids tend to be less susceptible to frost and disease (notably phylloxera), but their wine has little of the characteristic "foxy" odor of ''labrusca''. Currently, a large fraction of the grape crop goes to producing grape juice to be used as a sweetener for fruits canned 'with no added sugar' and '100% natural'.

Image:Grapes.jpg A bunch of grapes	Image:Autumn Royal grapes.jpg Autumn Royal grapes
Image:Ripe grapes.jpg Red and green grapes	Image:More grapes.jpg Red grapes
Image:Flame seedless grapes.jpg Flame seedless grapes	Image:Concord grape plant.jpg Foliage of the Concord grape plant