Almeria grape
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The Almeria grape is a mild-white grape
, grown in both the US and Spain
. It is unusual among cultivated grapevines in that it is pistillate, and requires a second grape cultivar to provide pollen
, but has remained in cultivation for centuries despite this due to its quality as a table grape
.
Grape
A grape is a non-climacteric fruit, specifically a berry, that grows on the perennial and deciduous woody vines of the genus Vitis. Grapes can be eaten raw or they can be used for making jam, juice, jelly, vinegar, wine, grape seed extracts, raisins, molasses and grape seed oil. Grapes are also...
, grown in both the US and Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
. It is unusual among cultivated grapevines in that it is pistillate, and requires a second grape cultivar to provide pollen
Pollen
Pollen is a fine to coarse powder containing the microgametophytes of seed plants, which produce the male gametes . Pollen grains have a hard coat that protects the sperm cells during the process of their movement from the stamens to the pistil of flowering plants or from the male cone to the...
, but has remained in cultivation for centuries despite this due to its quality as a table grape
Table grape
Table grapes are grapes intended for consumption while they are fresh, as opposed to grapes grown for wine production, juice production, or for drying into raisins....
.