Scuppernong Scuppernong The scuppernong is a large variety of muscadine ("Vitis rotundifolia"), a species of grape native to the Southern United States. It is usually a greenish or bronze color and is similar in appearance and texture to a white grape, but rounder and larger and first known as the 'big white grape'. The grape is commonly known as the "scuplin" in some areas of the Deep South. It is also known as the "scufalum", "scupanon", "scupadine", "scuppernine," "scupnun", or "scufadine" in some parts of the South. The scuppernong is the state fruit of North Carolina. The name comes from the
Scorza variety Scorza variety In mathematics, a "k"-Scorza variety is a smooth projective variety, of maximal dimension among those whose "k"–1 secant varieties are not the whole of projective space. Scorza varieties were introduced and classified by , who named them after Gaetano Scorza. The special case of 2-Scorza varieties are sometimes called Severi varieties, after Francesco Severi. Zak showed that "k"-Scorza varieties are the projective varieties of the rank 1 matrices of rank "k" simple Jordan algebras. The Severi varieties are the non-singular varieties of dimension "n" (even) in P that can be isomorphically projected to a hyperplane and satisfy "N"=3"n"/2+2.