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Kerm<strong>at</strong>h, Bennett and Pulsipher - Food Plants in <strong>the</strong> Americs<br />

NATURAL RANGE: Neotropics from South Florida and Texas to <strong>the</strong> West<br />

Indies, Ecuador, and Venezuela<br />

REFERENCES: Adams 1972, Hoyas 1989, Ibarra-Manríquez et al. 1997,<br />

MBG n.d.<br />

Vitis vinifera L.<br />

FAMILY: Vitaceae (grape)<br />

ENGLISH: European grape, grape, raisin (when dried), wine grape<br />

PORTUGUESE: passa (when dried), uva, uva branca, uva seca (when<br />

dried)<br />

SPANISH: parra, pasa (when dried), uva, uva roxa, uva blanca, uva<br />

negra, uva pas, uva seca (when dried), vid<br />

USES/NOTES: Fruits are edible and made into wine, juice, jellies,<br />

and preserves. The principle grape <strong>of</strong> commerce.<br />

NATURAL RANGE: Mediterranean region <strong>of</strong> sou<strong>the</strong>astern Europe or<br />

western Asia<br />

REFERENCES: Guia Rural n.d., Leung 1961, Schwanitz 1966, Terra<br />

1966, Usher 1974, Will 1991<br />

Vitis vulpina L.<br />

FAMILY: Vitaceae (grape)<br />

ENGLISH: chicken grape, frost grape, river-bank grape, winter grape<br />

USES/NOTES: Cultiv<strong>at</strong>ed occasionally for its dark fruit, which<br />

becomes sweet after a frost. Sap may be drunk.<br />

NATURAL RANGE: Eastern North America<br />

REFERENCES: Duke 1992, Godfrey 1988, Mabberley 1987, Sturtevant<br />

1972, Usher 1974, Yanovsky 1936<br />

Vochysia vismiifolia Spruce ex Warming<br />

FAMILY: Vochysiaceae (vochysia)<br />

PORTUGUESE: dima-vermelha, quaruba-vermelha<br />

USES/NOTES: Fruits are edible.<br />

NATURAL RANGE: Amazonia<br />

REFERENCES: Boom 1989, Silva et al. 1977<br />

Vulpia oct<strong>of</strong>lora (Walter) Rydb. var. oct<strong>of</strong>lora [syn. Festuca<br />

oct<strong>of</strong>lora Walter]<br />

FAMILY: Gramineae or Poaceae (grass)<br />

ENGLISH: fescue<br />

USES/NOTES: Previously inter-cropped with corn by <strong>the</strong> Navaho for<br />

its edible seeds.<br />

NATURAL RANGE: North America<br />

REFERENCES: Kindscher 1987, Yanovsky 1936<br />

Wasabia japonica (Miq.) M<strong>at</strong>sumara [syn. Alliaria wasabi Prantl.,<br />

Cochlearia wasabi Sieb., Eutrema japonica, E. wasabi (Siebold)<br />

Maxim., Lunaria japonica Miq.]<br />

FAMILY: Cruciferae (mustard) or Brassicaceae (brassica)<br />

ENGLISH: Japanese horseradish, wasabi<br />

PORTUGUESE: wasabi<br />

DRAFT - DO NOT DUPLICATE OR DISTRIBUTE<br />

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