In the Northern Cape’s Orange River Valley, South Africa’s largest table grape area, temperatures spiked above 40°C for several days in early October. These unseasonably high temperatures caused ...
A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis. Grapes can be eaten fresh as table grapes, used for making wine, jam, grape juice ...
Muscari botryoides, also known as grape hyacinths, are spring-blooming bulbs that produce small stalks bearing clumps of bright violet-blue flowers that somewhat resemble clusters of grapes.
This dropping of flowers is called coulure. Since each flower is responsible for a grape, the cluster of grapes that eventually forms is loose and missing grapes. If the improperly fertilized flower ...