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Red grapes

Lameiro

	Ampelographic Characteristics Fonte: Catálogo das Castas, IVV.
	Grape characteristics
Name	Lameiro
Type of grape variety	White
Description	Medium quality white grape variety, authorised in the Lima sub-region, with a culture area confined to Ponte da Barca and with little representativeness. Little productive, it produces neutral and unbalanced wines. Synonymy: also known as «Lameira», «Branco Lameiro», «Lameirinho», «Branco da Lama», «Luzidio» and «Molarinho», its probably the «Branco da Lama» of the Spanish Province Galicia. SOURCE: Catálogo das Castas da CVRVV.

Budding	open, cottony, white and with the margins slightly carmine.
Young leaf	yellow with bronze spots, cottony on the down side, main veins slightly bristly and pubescent on the upper side of the blade.
Flower	androgynous.
Shoots	internodes and nodes with red striations on the back side and green on the frontal side; green buds; erect to half-erect growth.
Tendrils	discontinuous, long, webbed, separate and straight.
Adult leaf	medium size, wedge-shaped, with five, sometimes seven lobes, medium green, irregular outline and slightly bubbly; medium length teeth and convex margins; petiolar sinus with the lobes slightly overlapped and with a V shaped base, frequently with a tooth over the margin; upper lateral sinus with the lobes slightly overlapped and a U shaped base; carmine petiolar point as well as the beginning of the main veins on both sides; cottony and bristly on the down side, glabrous petiole, shorter than the medium main vein.
Bunch	medium size; conic and winged; medium compactness; medium length peduncle and medium lignification.
Berry	medium size and uniform, elliptic-short; yellow green colour; with little bloom; thin skin with visible seeds, and apparent hilum; soft, juicy pulp with a simple flavour, medium long pedicel of easy separation.
Seeds	little hard tegument, predominantly two per berry; medium size, pyriform, short and little pronounced beak.
Stalks	elliptic cross-section, striated surface, brown reddish colour; little vigorous; fusiform and straight; medium long internodes, big, large, sharp and prominent buds.