mid westerners, help me identify... got it!

Bubblingbrooks

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No pics, cause I do not have a camera :(
I will do my very best to describe.

In my parents front yard, one of the huge Norway Pines that is dying, has been taken over by an interesting vine.
It has a fat vine at the bottom, and it literally has crept a couple stories. Leaves are like a birch in soem ways, just not as sawtoothed.
What is interesting, is it has very loose bunches of under ripe berries all over it.
Reminds me of wild grapes, but the leaves are all wrong.

Any ideas?
I am googling all kinds of things, and no luck so far.
 

Bubblingbrooks

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Just talked to my mom. It is a grape vine. Leaves are all mixed up in second tree that is growing up in the pine tree.
I am not kidding when I say its a couple stories tall.
And loaded with half grown grapes.
Wish I was here a bit longer now :drool
 

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I have wild grapes growing across the road from me in the small bush. I havn't quite figured out what I am going to do with them. Ideas? Wine? Juice? jelly? All of the above???
 

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miss_thenorth said:
I have wild grapes growing across the road from me in the small bush. I havn't quite figured out what I am going to do with them. Ideas? Wine? Juice? jelly? All of the above???
It has been years since I had any. I would say all of the above.
Oh! Juice and then make your own home made jello!

Here is a link that shows what we have here... http://www.co.washoe.nv.us/parks/arboretum/westernWildGrape.htm
 

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Mmmmm! I've only seen a grape vine that big once. It came down on a piece of property near my parents' house. There was no house there and no one came and took care of the tree that came down tha thad the vine growing all over it so we grabbed all the ripe grapes we could reach and made jelly with them.
 
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