Photo collection - Flowering grapes
Grapes have flowers too, but how do they look?
In fact, grape flowers are very small and often go overlooked. They aren't showy at all and have yellow-green flowers that radiate out from the stem. Eventually they are fertilized and turn into grapes by pollen from male flowers on a seperate vine.
A zoomed-in shot reveals the detail of these delicate little flowers.
Wild grapes tend to climb over trees, fences and buildings in order to reach the sunlight. Often you can find a "wall" of grapes like this. Seeing them all in bloom really draws the eye, doesn't it?
Once it reaches its final form, the juicy purple grapes are available for months in the autumn. Keep an eye out for these next time you're hiking in the summer and fall, you just might find them everywhere!
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nice pictures.. good work @seedvault
Thank you, there's plenty more left to share!
This is a great example of why it's nice to keep notes or maps about the locations of plants to forage at different times of year. And why it's good to learn to identify plants at their different stages of growth. Spring is a great time to notice flowers, like these grapes -- and then come back later in the year for the fruits. Enjoy all your grapes -- that vine looks super-productive!
My maps of where to find all the good stuff are all in my head! That's a fantastic idea though, and I suggest you check out Falling fruit, a website that tries to make a full comprehensive map of edible wild plants.
Spring is a good time to look for flowering plants and trees: apple blossoms, cherries, plums, serviceberry, raspberries and others will all be signalling that it's time for pollinators to come and get their nectar!
That Falling Fruit site looks pretty good - there are over 200 entries for the town where I live. I'll have to check out those plants during this year. And add my own, I guess. Although, with all our wild blackberry patches, there really could be thousands of spots to enter into their database, lol. Here's to all that great fruit out there, growing on it's own. : )