Narrative
Type = ISH. Flower = female. Per Galet (see citation): "[about V. riparia] Growing tip: globular, shephard's crook, upper surface is glabrous and the lower pubescent. Young leaves: pale green. Leaf: cuneiform, 135 to 246-3 to 4-24 to 46, large, pubescent on both surfaces especially the lower surface which has tufts of bristly hair at the bifurcation of the primary veins; thin, dark green, slightly three-lobed (21); teeth pointed, narrow, the three terminal teeth of L1 and L2 are very long; petiolar sinus lyre-shaped, more or less open. Shoot: glabrous or pubescent, smooth or finely ribbed, thin. Flower clusters: male or femail; the female cultivars have two or three clusters per shoot and the secondary buds are equally fruitful. . . . Cluster: always very small 5 to 12 cm; very small berries 4 to 8 mm, round or oblate, black, very little juice, herbaceous flavor, very high color in the skin, and very early maturation. Wine is dark purple and acid, has body and blackberrylike aroma. Seeds: small, 4 mm, semicircular, dorsal side very swollen, ash gray to brownish; chalaza small, position .55, round; raphe rather rudimentary; beak very short, almost nonexistent. Growth habit: trailing or climbing."