Synonym for the grape variety Niagara White; see there.
The white grape variety is an interspecific new variety between Concord x Cassady (unknown Labrusca - open-pollinated). Synonyms are Guankouputao, Guizhoushuijing, Niagara, Niagara Branca, White Concord and Yunnanshuijing. It contains genes from Vitis labrusca and probably Vitis vinifera. The father variety was selected in 1852 by grower H. P. Cassady. The hybrid was crossed in 1866 by grower Claudius L. Hoag and B. Wheaton Clark in Niagara County in the US state of New York.
It was a crossing partner in the three new varieties Bluestar, Monticello and...
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