Vitis coignetiae
Common name: 
Crimson Glory Vine
Pronunciation: 
VI-tis kog-NET-e-a, VEE-tis kwun-YAY-tee-i
Family: 
Vitaceae
Genus: 
Vitis
Type: 
Broadleaf
Native to (or naturalized in) Oregon: 
No
  • Deciduous vine, vigorous, rapidly climbing to tree tops, young shoots brown tomentose, tendrils lacking at every third node.  Leaves alternate, simple, rounded ovate, 10-25 cm wide, indistinctly 3-5 lobed, dentate margin, cordate at base, acute at apex, dark green and glabrous above, thickly tomentose below, in fall crimson and scarlet; petiole 5-15 cm long.  Fruit 10 mm thick, black, scarcely edible.
  • Sun or shade.
  • Hardy to USDA Zone 5         Native to Japan and Korea.
  • coignetiae: after Mme. Coignet who collected seeds of it in its native Japan (Coombes, 1985).
  • Oregon State Univ. campus: west wall Richardson Hall.
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  • plant habit, growing over Evergreen Clematis

    plant habit, growing over Evergreen Clematis

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    plant habit, fall

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    leaves, fall

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    leaf, fall