Vitis are vigorous deciduous climbing shrubs with tendrils and attractively lobed leaves, insignificant green flowers followed by often edible fruits; some have excellent autumn foliage colour
V. coignetiae is a very strong-growing, large deciduous tendril-climber with slightly lobed, broad-ovate leaves to 30cm in length, turning scarlet and crimson in autumn. Insignificant flowers and small, black berries