has resulted in several bronze cultivars such as Carlos, Doreen, Magnolia and Triumph, that are distinguished by being perfect flowered (male and female flower parts together) from the Scuppernong variety with only female flower parts. The "Mother Vine" Possibly the oldest cultivated grapevine in the world is the 400-year-old scuppernong "Mother Vine" growing on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Use of scuppernong in the arts In music Scuppernong is a piece for piano in three movements by John Wesley Work III ‘’Broomstraw Philosophers and Scuppernong Wine’’ is a song written by country artist, Larry Jon Wilson In literature Scuppernongs are mentioned in chapters 4 and 22 of To Kill a Mockingbird. Scuppernong is also mentioned in Charles W. Chesnutt'''s 1899 collection of short stories The Conjure Woman They are also mentioned by the name "scupadine" in chapter 6 of Salvage the Bones. "In The Scuppernongs" is the title of a particularly terrifying chapter in Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone, the ninth book in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. In the movie The Bad Seed, Rhoda Penmark talks about the "scuppernong arbor" in the family's yard. Scuppernongs are mentioned in Chapter 25 of MacKinlay Kantor's Civil War novel Andersonville''. References External links VisitNC.com North Carolina's Toast To The MotherVine About.com Southern U.S. cuisine: muscadines & scuppernongs CharlestonWine.com History of the Muscadine - The South’s Own Grape Grape varieties Crops originating from the United States Cuisine of the Southern United States American wine Symbols of North Carolina