Many names including bullace, bullis, bullet and muscadine have been used to denote this grape in the wild and in cultivation.
Wild muscadines are an important wildlife food and often climb to the tree tops.
Cultivated grapes of this species are now usually called muscadines although the bronze muscadines are often referred to as scuppernongs. Muscadine, however, is the recognized common name since Scuppernong is actually a cultivar of bronze muscadine found growing wild on the Scuppernong River in North Carolina about 1810. Muscadine vines may live to be very old in some situations. Breeding programs have resulted in all of the improved fresh market cultivars planted commercially today. With these cultivars, yields of three to four tons per acre can be expected by growers who apply all the recommended cultural practices including irrigation.