:Vitis bryoniifolia

{{Short description|Species of grapevine}}

{{speciesbox

|name = North China grape

|genus = Vitis

|image = V. bryoniifolia.jpg

|image_caption = Male vine flowering

|species = bryoniifolia

|authority = Bunge A formal description of this species was first published in Enum. Pl. China Bor. 11. 1833. {{cite web

|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242354829 |title=Vitis bryoniifolia |work=Flora of China |publisher=eFloras |access-date=May 12, 2010}}

|subdivision_ranks = Varieties

|subdivision = V. b. var. bryoniifolia (autonym) Being the type from which any additional varieties are based, the description of V. b. var. bryoniifolia is the same as that of V. bryoniifolia.{{cite web

|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242354830 |title=Vitis bryoniifolia var. bryoniifolia |work=Flora of China |publisher=eFloras |access-date=May 25, 2010}}
V. b. var. ternata (W.T.Wang) C.L.Li V. b. var. ficifolioides was published in Chin. J. Appl. Environ. Biol. 2: 253. 1996.;
V. adstricta var. ternata was published in Acta Phytotax. Sin. 17(3): 76. 1979. {{cite web

|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242354833 |title=Vitis bryoniifolia var. ternata (W.T.Wang) C.L.Li |work=Flora of China |publisher=eFloras |access-date=April 25, 2010}}

|synonyms = Synonyms for V. b. var. bryoniifolia;

• Vitis adstricta Hance V. adstricta was published in Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 20(237): 258-259. 1882.{{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/34001555 |title=Name - Vitis adstricta Hance |work=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |location=Saint Louis, Missouri |access-date=May 25, 2010}}
• V. bryoniifolia var. mairei (H.Lév.) W.T.Wang V. bryoniifolia var. mairei was published in Guihaia 8(2): 112. 1988. {{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/34001500 |title=Name - Vitis bryoniifolia var. mairei (H.Lév.) W.T.Wang |work=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |location=Saint Louis, Missouri |access-date=May 25, 2010}}
• V. bryoniifolia var. multilobata S.Y.Wang & Y.H.Hu V. bryoniifolia var. multilobata was published in Flora Hainanica 2: 597. 1988. {{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/50135711 |title=Name - Vitis bryoniifolia var. multilobata S.Y.Wang & Y.H.Hu |work=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |location=Saint Louis, Missouri |access-date=May 25, 2010}}
• V. flexuosa var. mairei H.Lév. V. flexuosa var. mairei was published in Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 7(152-156): 340. 1909. {{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/34001501 |title=Name - Vitis flexuosa var. mairei H.Lév. |work=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |location=Saint Louis, Missouri |access-date=May 25, 2010}}
• V. novisinensis Vassilcz. V. novisinensis was published in Botanicheskie Materialy Gerbariia Botanicheskogo Instituta imeni V. L. Komarova Akademii Nauk SSSR 18: 167, f. 1. 1957. {{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/34002274 |title=Name - Vitis novisinensis Vassilcz. |work=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |location=Saint Louis, Missouri |access-date=May 25, 2010}}
• V. thunbergii var. adstricta (Hance) Gagnep. V. thunbergii var. adstricta was published in Plantae Wilsonianae 1(1): 105. 1911. {{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/34002522 |title=Name - Vitis thunbergii var. adstricta (Hance) Gagnep. |work=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |location=Saint Louis, Missouri |access-date=May 25, 2010}}
• V. thunbergii var. mairei (H.Lév.) Lauener V. thunbergii var. mairei was published in Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 27(3): 286. 1967. {{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/34002738 |title=Name - Vitis thunbergii var. mairei (H.Lév.) Lauener |work=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |location=Saint Louis, Missouri |access-date=May 25, 2010}}

Synon. for V. b. var. ternata;

• V. adstricta var. ternata W.T.Wang

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Vitis bryoniifolia is a prolific and adaptable, polygamo-dioecious species of climbing vine in the grape family native to China, where it is known as ying yu(Traditional Chinese: 蘡薁 Simplified Chinese: 蘡薁), or hua bei pu tao (Traditional Chinese: 華北葡萄 Simplified Chinese：华北葡萄） (North China grape). The variant form ternata is known as san chu ying yu （Traditional and Simplified Chinese: 三出蘡薁), meaning Three-Spiked-Leafed Ying Yu.

V. bryoniifolia is found in a wide variety of tree-established habitats including forests and shrublands, or fields and valleys where trees are present, especially along the banks of streams; and can be found both in highlands and low- (100–2500 meters above sea-level). It has a long growing season, flowering from April to August, and bearing its fruit (rosy, plum-colored berries, 5–8 mm. in diameter) from June to October; and also a broad distributional range, being reported from 15 of China's 27 provinces and autonomous regions (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hebei, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and Zhejiang). It has long been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine as a laxative.