Recommended Muscadines for Home Gardens
(Central and Southern Arkansas)
Black Varieties
• Bronze Varieties
Cultivated muscadines have plants of two types: vines producing imperfect (pistillate)
flowers (only female parts or fertile) and plants producing perfect flowers
(both male and female parts or self-fertile). Imperfect-flowered muscadines
require a perfect-flowered plant for pollination. One vine of a perfect-flowered
variety can pollinate eight surrounding pistillate plants. Within a row, plant
3:1 (pistillate to perfect).
Black Varieties
Sugargate - This variety has very large fruit and is popular for the
fresh market; black, imperfect flower, early season; excellent flavor;
inconsistent yields; moderate vine vigor; fair winter hardiness.
Ison - Black, medium-sized fruit, perfect flower; early season; eat
fresh; good muscadine flavor; very high vine vigor; low level of winter
hardiness.
Supreme - Very large fruit of excellent quality; black, imperfect
flower, mid-late season; moderate vine vigor; undetermined winter hardiness.
Black Beauty - Large fruited, black, imperfect flower,
early-mid season; excellent flavor; high vine vigor; fair winter hardiness.
Cowart - Yields well; perfect flower; black, medium-large fruit;
midseason; moderate vine vigor, fair winter hardiness; good pollinator; good
producer with vigor; processing type used for juice and jelly.
Nesbitt - Consistently performed well; perfect flower with large black
berries; high vine vigor; good winter hardiness; mid-late season; very good
flavor for fresh eating.
Noble - This variety is popular with juice and wine makers; small
fruit size; black, perfect flower, late season; excellent flavor; high yields;
high vine vigor; good winter hardiness.
Bronze Varieties
Sweet Jenny - Imperfect flower; bronze, large fruit;
early season; high vine vigor; excellent flavor; fair winter hardiness.
Summit - Large-fruited variety popular with fresh markets; bronze,
imperfect flower; mid-season; high vine vigor; good flavor; good disease
resistance; good winter hardiness; consume fresh.
Fry - Yields well; imperfect flower; bronze with large fruit;
mid-season; moderate vine vigor; fair winter hardiness; good flavor; standard
for fresh market; susceptible to fruit rot.
Granny Val - Bronze; self fertile; late-season; large berries
and high yield; good disease resistance and flavor; poor - fair winter hardiness
and low-medium vine vigor.
Carlos - Used for processing into juice, jelly and white wine; bronze;
early season; perfect flower; high yield; medium-size berry; high vine vigor and
good winter hardiness; a productive variety
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