The vine is a porcelain berry vine (Ampelopsis brevipedunculata), a deciduous, inconspicuous, vine with lobed leaves. It’s a distant cousin to grape vines.

The porcelain berry plant is an aggressive grower that can climb up structures as high as 20 feet or spread as a ground cover for up to 15 feet.

OU-MRU: A berry vine found in Asia proves useful in combating lung cancer. Okayama University. Journal Food and Chemical Toxicology DOI 10.1016/j.fct.2021.112319. Keywords ...

For those of you who get up to the Anderson Valley, the Boonville Hotel has a full-bodied display of porcelain berry vines scrambling over the wooden and rusticated wrought-iron pickets of its ...