Editing Verdicchio (section)

==Clonal variation and plantings==
[[File:Trebbiano d' Abruzzo grapes before veraison.jpg|thumb|right|Verdicchio shares several synonyms with Trebbiano (pictured) and the two varieties can sometimes be confused for each other.]]
The Verdicchio grapevine is very susceptible to [[Cloning#Horticultural|clonal mutations]] with several sub-varieties of the grape known to exist in central Italy under various synonyms (see section below). Like with many varieties of Italian wine grapes, this makes an exact cataloging of the number of plantings difficult. In her book, ''Jancis Robinson's Guide to Wine Grapes'', Robinson reports in 1996 that there were nearly {{convert|10,000|acre|ha}} of Verdicchio found mostly in the provinces along the [[Adriatic Sea|Adriatic]] coast.<ref name="wine grapes"/> That number is dramatically reduced from the number of plantings of Verdicchio in the mid-1980s when there was an estimated 65,000 hectares (all in Italy). However, some wine experts, including Jancis Robinson, speculate that it is likely that some of those plantings were actually [[Trebbiano]].<ref name="Robinson"/>