in commercial viticulture, grapevines are rarely propagated from seedlings as each seed contains unique genetic information from its two parent varieties (the flowering parent and the parent that provided the pollen that fertilized the flower) and would, theoretically, be a different variety than either parent. this would be true even if two hermaphroditic vine varieties, such as chardonnay, cross pollinated each other. while the grape clusters that would arise from the pollination would be considered chardonnay any vines that sprang from one of the seeds of the grape berries would be considered a distinct variety other than chardonnay. it is for this reason that grapevines are usually propagated from cuttings while grape breeders will utilize seedlings to come up with new grape varieties including crossings that include parents of two varieties within the same species (such as cabernet sauvignon which is a crossing of the "vitis vinifera" varieties cabernet franc and sauvignon blanc) or hybrid grape varieties which include parents from two different "vitis" species such as the armagnac grape baco blanc, which was propagated from the "vinifera" grape folle blanche and the "vitis labrusca" variety noah.