Sea Grape

Coccoloba uvifera

Coccoloba uvifera is a species of tree and flowering plant in the buckwheat family, Polygonaceae. Its common names include seagrape and baygrape. It is native to coastal beaches throughout tropical America and the Caribbean. It has edible fruit, among other uses.

Caulerpa

Caulerpa is a genus of seaweeds in the family Caulerpaceae. They are unusual because they consist of only one cell with many nuclei, also known as coenocytic or siphonous algae, making them among the biggest single cells in the world.

Sea

A sea is a very large body of salty water. The term has two distinct meanings. The first is the interconnected body of seawater that spans most of Earth, known as the sea or the ocean. The second is a named body of water: usually either a marginal sea, or a large, nearly landlocked body of water.

Grape

A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis. Grapes are a non-climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters.

sea grape

Noun

1. A small tree, of species Coccoloba uvifera, that grows on sandy beaches in tropical America; it has clusters of purple fruit.
2. European ephedra (Ephedra distachya), a leafless plant found in sandy soils along the coast and inland from southern and central Europe to central Asia, with edible fruit, harvested for the ephedrine found in its stems.