Grape: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Vitis

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Workers empty buckets of harvested grapes into a large bin in a vineyard surrounded by grapevines in Tuscany, Italy.

Workers load large bins full of green grapes onto a trailer during grape harvest in a vineyard in Sremska Kamenica, Vojvodina, Serbia. Rows of grapevines stretch into the background.

Clusters of dark purple fox grapes, Vitis labrusca, hanging from a vine with broad green leaves.

Clusters of ripe red grapes hang from vines among green leaves in a vineyard.

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A young adult wearing overalls and a baseball hat in nature. A paper cutout with images of berries, nuts, and

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Bunch of purple grapes.

Observe a farmer toiling in a hillside grape vineyard along the Rhine River at Europe's northernmost point

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Chef tossing vegetables in a frying pan over a burner (skillet, food).

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Ceviche. Peruvian ceviche (sebiche). Raw seafood dish with lime, cilantro, peppers, plantains. Cuisine, food

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Venus's-flytrap. Venus's-flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) one of the best known of the meat-eating plants. Carnivorous plant, Venus flytrap, Venus fly trap

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Grains and spices in bags, India. (Indian, vendor, market, food)

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