However, one look at the single flat, crescent moon shaped seed and you'll know your not dealing with a grape. Grape vines are strong and flexible. The sturdy vines make beautiful, intricate baskets, wreathes, even fanciful domed structures big enough to hold several people. The leaves were traditionally used by farmers. And, of course, mediterranean cuisine is rich with foods cooked in grape-leaf wraps.
Wild grapes are just as good as cultivated for jellies, preserves and pies.
They just need more sugar. Better yet, wild grapes often hang on the vine for months, becoming sweeter after heavy frosts - A good resource at a time when there's generally less to eat in the woods. A grape vine is a climbing, woody perennial, best recognized by its alternate simple leaves that are lobed and toothed, and by its purple, seeded berries that grow in bunches. Grape vine, roots, leaves, and fruit were used as food, drink and tonic, to relieve pain, treat diarrhea, fevers, liver troubles, rheumatism, and even insanity . Grape Vine sap used as a wash for hair.