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Details for: DVIT 723, Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera, Folle Blanche

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera

Top Name:

Folle Blanche

Origin:

Donated – France

Maintained:

Natl. Germplasm Repository - Davis

Received by NPGS:

01 Jan 1983

Improvement Status:

Cultivated material

Form Received:

Cutting

Life Form:

Vine

Life Habit:

Woody Vine

Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Cutting	5 count		DVIT 723 0000C PL

Note: When you select cuttings, you will receive unrooted cuttings, not rooted plants, unless specific arrangements have been made with the curator.
This accession has been replaced by an alternate accession maintained in a micro-mesh screenhouse.

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera

Top Name:

Folle Blanche

Origin:

Donated – France

Maintained:

Natl. Germplasm Repository - Davis

Received by NPGS:

01 Jan 1983

Improvement Status:

Cultivated material

Form Received:

Cutting

Life Form:

Vine

Life Habit:

Woody Vine

Source History

Donated

06 March 1939.
France
Comment: 3 scion sticks donated by M. Vidal
01 January 1983.
California, United States
Comment: Donated to NCGR, Davis.
Donor(s):

Olmo, Harold P., University of California

Accession Names and Identifiers

Folle Blanche

Type: Unverified name

X11:1-2

Type: Donor identifier

University of California, Davis, Viticulture Dept. vineyard location while under the care of Dr. Olmo

Olmo, Harold P. University of California

DVIT 723

Type: Site identifier

Amounedat

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Bouillon

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Burageat

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Camobraque

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Chalosse Blanche

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Dame Blanche

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Damery

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Engreat Blanc

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Enrachat

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Enrage

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Enrageat Blanc

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Feher Folle

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Fol Belyi

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Fuetterer

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Grais Bouillan

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Gros Meslier

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Gros Plant

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Hivernage

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Mendic

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Petit Verjus

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Picpouille Blanc

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Picpoule

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Picquepouille

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Piquepout

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Plant de Dame

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Rebauche

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Rochelle Blanc

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Rochelle Verte

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Roumain

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Talosse

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Ugne Blanche

Type: Other or unclassified name

synonym

Narrative

Per Galet (see citation): "Growing tip: felty white, very slight rose margin. Young leaves: downy, yellowish above, felty below. Leaf: orbicular 136-2-69. Shoot: ribbed, reddish-brown, red nodes; tendrils brown, thick, medium. Cluster: medium, compact, conical, sometimes winged; berries medium, 10-12mm, round or slightly oval when squeezed in the cluster, greenish white at maturity. Folle blance is the traditional brandy variety of the Cognac and Armagnac regions. Since the turn of the century, it has largely been replaced by St. Emillion and Baco 22 A. The grapes are generally low in sugar and are very acid even in Montpellier; they make an exceptionally fine brandy. It is a productive vine of average budbreak and midseason maturity. Since grafted vines of Folle blanche are spparently more vigorous than they were before phylloxera, the problem of botrytis rot is worse. In addition, it is very susceptible to black rot which has also contributed to its replacement by its offspring Baco blanc. On the other hand, it has some resistance to powdery mildew." Information taken from www.wine-lovers-page.com/wineguest/wgg.html: "Minor variety once enjoying extensive use in making the distilled wines of the cognac region of France. Small acreages still remain in the western Loire region that are used to produce an often light, sharply acidic wine called 'Gros Plant du Pays Nantais' locally claimed to be a useful foodmatch alternative to Muscadet de Bourgogne. Also grown in the S. Rhone region where it has the synonym name Piquepol (Blanc)."

Vitis vinifera L. subspp. vinifera

Genus:

Vitis

Subgenus:

Vitis

Family:

Vitaceae

Subfamily:

Vitoideae

Nomen number:

426915

Verified:

01/24/2011 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Vitis vinifera L. (215 active accession[s])
Vitis vinifera L. subsp. sylvestris Hegi (82 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym
Vitis vinifera L. var. sativa DC.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Vitis vinifera L. subsp. sativa (DC.) Hegi

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	note	seq	Citation
English	wine grape			1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French	lambrusque			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
French	vigne			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
French	vigne vinifère			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Weinrebe			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Italian	lambrusca			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Italian	vite			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Portuguese	vinho			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Spanish	parra			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	vid			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	vino			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6

Annotations

Nomenclature Name Change: 06 Aug 2002, from Vitis vinifera L. to Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera

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Citations

Galet, P. 1979. A Practical Ampelography - Grapevine Identification. In: Galet, P., A practical ampelography: grapevine identification 69. Number of accessions cited: 7

Pedigree

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Sample Size	Study	Inventory	Availability
CHEMICAL	1st Titratable Acidity	Percent Tartaric Acid for 50-100 berries	.6156		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
CHEMICAL	1st Lab Brix Measurement	Ave. percent sugar content, measured with a digital refractometer, for 50-100 berries, harvested after the field Brix > 20	18.9		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
DISEASE	Disease	Observation of presence of disease on fruit	Absent		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Berry Shape	Typical berry shape	4 - Short elliptic		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Berry Weight	Average weight of 50 berries	3.41		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Seed Color	Observation of typical seed color	13		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Flesh Firmness	Weight necessary for cracking the berries.	Medium		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Number of Seeds/Berry	Average number of seeds per berry for 10 fruit	2.5		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Seed Weight	Weight in grams of ten seeds.	0.8		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
FLWR-FRUIT	Cluster Weight	Average weight in grams of one cluster with two replicates.	471.15		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Sex of Flower	Observation during flowering, mean value of 10 inflorescences	3 - Hermaphrodite (Concord)		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Sex of Flower	Observation during flowering, mean value of 10 inflorescences	3 - Hermaphrodite (Concord)		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000E PL	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	Flesh Color	Flesh colored or not colored	1 - Flesh not colored		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Leaf lobes on mature leaf	Observation of the number of lobes on mature leaves	3 - Five		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Leaf Shape of Mature Leaf	Shape of a mature count leaf on a count shoot.	3 - Pentagonal		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Shoot Young Tip Color	Color of the young shoot tip	5 - Bronze		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Shoot habit	Observation of shoot habit	1 - Erect		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Shoot Tip Color Intensity	Intensity of the color of the young shoot tip	3 - Weak		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Shoot tip form	Observation of shoot tip form	5 - Fully-open		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Leaf Petiolar Sinus Tooth	Observation of petiolar sinus tooth presence	0 - Absent		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Berry Skin Pigment 2	Observation of typical skin color 2	1 - Green-yellow		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Bunch Density	Observation of cluster density	5 - Medium (densely distributed		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	1st Cluster Length	Length of a first cluster in centimeters	170		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Bunch Morphology	Observation of cluster shape	4		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	1st Cluster Width	Width of a first cluster in centimeters	150		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Naked Vein	Observation of naked vein presence	0 - Absent		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Peduncle Length	Length of peduncle of a first cluster in centimeters	3		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Petiolar Sinus Mature Leaf	General shape of petiole sinus	4		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
MORPHOLOGY	Percentage of Shot Berries	Observation of percent of shot berries	0		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	Bud Burst Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the buds are wooly	81		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 723 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	Bud Burst Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the buds are wooly	90		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	Bud Burst Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the buds are wooly	90		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000E PL	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	Leaf Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the buds have a green leaf	87		GRAPE.WEO.1996	DVIT 723 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	Bloom Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the grape flowers are in bloom	132		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	Bloom Date	Julian days from January 1 when 50% of the grape flowers are in bloom	132		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000E PL	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	Observation Date	Julian days from January 1 when laboratory observations were made.	280		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
PHENOLOGY	1st Brix and TA Date	Julian days from January 1 when brix (LBRIX) and the Titratable Acidity (TITRATCID) were measured	280		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL
PRODUCTION	Flavor	Particular flavor of berries	0 - None (no especially distinctive flavor)		GRAPE.CHAR.WEO.2009	DVIT 723 0000C PL