Either of two New World twining plants.
- A tall North American climber (Berchemia scandens, family Rhamnaceae). A plant of the Caribbean and tropical America (Paullinia plumieri, family Sapindaceae)..
- Vines attractive for fruit include supplejack, zone 6; Virginia creeper, zone 4; and grape, zone 3, depending on species.
- Greenbrier vines and a vine known as supplejack climb over some of the vegetation.
- People used to make crayfish pots out of interlaced supplejack and Number 8 wire - that nearly universal Kiwi solution to construction problems.
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