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Curare is an extremely bitter-tasting poison derived from the bark of a South American vine tree.
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In printing, a vignette is a decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position. The term later came to be applied to any small picture in a book and also to pictures, such as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
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Grapes are the fruit of the vine plant.
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Gumming is a disease which attacks the vine, plum, peach, cherry and other trees. It is very contagious, and is due to a fungus, Coryneum Beijerinckii, which converts the cell-walls and contents into gum, as in the production of gum arabic.
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The Pipe Vine Swallowtail (Battus philenor) is an American Swallowtail butterfly found in the eastern and southern USA. The colouring is basically dark brown enhanced by rows of creamy white spots, the hind wings and abdomen are bordered with a blue-green gloss. The underside of the hind wings has red-orange dots and is edged with black and white half-moon spots.
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Poison ivy also known as poison oak and poison vine (Rhus radicans) is a vine or shrub of the family Anacardiaceae, having trifoliate leaves and whitish berries. It causes severe dermatitis when touched by people sensitive to it.
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Traveller's Joy (Clematis vitalba) also known as Virgin's Bower, Old Man's Beard and White Vine, is a climbing shrub of the natural order Ranunculaceae native to Europe, western Asia and north Africa. As a rule it scrambles over hedges and thickets, but often when it reaches up into a tree its rope-like stems are of great length. The opposite leaves are divided into three or five long heart-shaped leaflets, and the leaf-stalk is the climbing instrument, taking a turn round twigs and hardening. The flowers are slightly odorous, and consist of four greenish-white sepals downy on the under surface. The numerous styles develop long white feathery tails, which in autumn become the old man's beard.
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The vine (Vitis vinifera) is a shrub of the family Ampelidae. This is the plant from which grapes are obtained.
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The Vine Moth (Eupoeciliaambiguella) is a moth of the family Cochylidae with a wing span of between 14 and 16 mm found in vineyards across the Palaearctic region. Two generations are produced, the first flying in May and the second from July to August.
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The virginia creeper (Vitis quinquefolia) is a climbing plant of the family Vitaceae, akin to the vine, with large lobbed leaves which acquire a beautiful red colour in the autumn, tendrils by which it climbs and which give off short branches ending in adhesive suckers for clinging to walls or trees, and clusters of green flowers like those of the vine. It is native to North America and was introduced into Britain.
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