Looks like I'm long over due for another top ten video on weirdest looking fruit. Here's an ancient one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hJxNQqpEbK0.html
This fruit is botanically called decaisnea fargesil. This fruit is related to the Akebia fruit. That's why they are so similar: color, seeds, the presence of a cavity! These plants are from the same family called lat. Lardizabalaceae
I felt the same way...and then I looked up tamarind's actual genetic stuff...did you know tamarind is part of Fabaceae (Fava Bean family)? So Tamarind has a lot more in common with lentils than it does with this fruit. I've been eating tamarind for decades without ever knowing that. I always thought the tamarind pod looked similar to a pea pod...and now I know why.
@@HaydenX Look at black and honey locust trees. They are very similar to tamarind. They are all in the same family, even though they are in a different genus.
Growing up my Dad was a produce was manager and loved bring home strange and exotic fruits and veggies home for us to try. Thank you for bringing my childhood memories alive on a global scale. We grew up with the motto, you cant say you dont like something unless you have tried it.With every video I find myself researching the health benefits, where and how I can purchase it and how I can use it in my life. Thank you
So it's related to akebia, the outside look like a mix of a bean and tamarind, the pulp inside look like passion fruit, but smell and taste like watermelon.
I thought they were like bean pods, then we saw the closeup of their texture & shape... not beans! I really enjoy seeing things that I didn't know existed and would have otherwise thought were 'original creations' when making up alien planet fruits and plants.
Where in India have you seen this used and how is it prepared? I know it grows along the edge of the Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and China. Very curious how you have seen it used
I can't believe I found this channel. This is like perfect, I love trying to find new fruits and have always gone out of my way to do so. I knew I wasn't alone. Awesome channel dude.
Nice to have an exotic fruit featured that is hardy enough to grow here in the UK, a Decaisnea is on my shortlist to get here to try......I already have 2 Akebia quinata vines, hoping to get some fruit off them. Curiously of course they are a similar colour sausage shaped fruit.
hahahah! "dead man's fingers" awfully fitting. xD In the oceans around my area there is a species of sea sponge that is fairly common. We call it "Dödmanshand" (Dead man's hand) as it looks like a pale and bloated persons' hands and fingers if one gets pulled in your fishing nets or if you by chance manage to hook one on your fishing lure. This is a sea sponge and is inedible, so not quite the same thing. But I made that connection due to the morbid nature of the name. Greetings from Sweden! :D
Had a Russian Blue, can’t confirm the blue poop. 😅 He was the sweetest kitty I ever knew though, my childhood best friend, Rest In Peace Shadow Kitty. 💙🌈🐈⬛
hi Weird Explorer, I just started watching your videos a week or so ago and I'm hooked! I love your enthusiasm and knowledge... and your passion for weird fruits is contagious!! i also think you just seem like a very down-to-earth, cool guy. 10/10 channel my friend :)
looks like you caught the weird fruit explorer bug, hes got absolutely hundreds of fruit tried in the past, some quality can be worse than others but its about the fruit i say.
The lardizabala biternata is also from the same order as decaisnea, akebia, holboellia, sinofranchetia and stauntonia ( in the order of ranunculales) And it's from Chile and it's quite rare outside of it, It's called coguil
So we actually grow this one here at the nursery from seed imported from Chile. We've been selling plants for the last year, but sadly we haven't had fruit set yet. If we can get fruit off of our vines we will definitely send some to Jared to try! I've heard they're quite good.
This reminds me of limber capers, a similar looking bean pod that grows in the Florida Keys. The also look like fingers, and the inside is bright red with white beans that make it look like bones in flesh. I am not sure if they are edible but they sure are weird. My nickname for them was zombie finger bean.
I saw these in a botanical garden years ago. I never knew they were edible. I also found a local nursery that carries the plants, so maybe this year I'll plant one.
There is an odd plant that changes temporally. The taste of other food. Example is if it is bitter it makes things taste sweet. Also enhances all foods and drink to taste better. Perhaps you know this name and where to find it.
see if you can get a hold of spanish tamarind (Vangueria madagascariensis) which isnt really a tamarind.i had a bush when i was a kid. never have been able to find them after i left the islands. If you do make sure to let them go completely brown before trying. theyre not good if you dont.
This fruit is botanically called decaisnea fargesil. This fruit is related to the Akebia fruit. That's why they are so similar: color, seeds, the presence of a cavity! These plants are from the same family called lat. Lardizabalaceae
Such an oddly satisfying channel. I'm not sure what RU-vid rabbit hole lead me here, but I'm happy it happened. I'm studying mechanical engineering, and never thought if care about fruit. But damn I love your videos
very nice i heard of that nursery from ciscoe morris on king 5 and evening magazine when i get things going much better i plan on getting some of these as well.
You should really get your hands on the cane fruits. They're really sour, but they got this scally cover on them that give them a unique look that people at my place use them as show piece😄
I sure hope you are collecting all those incredible seeds or donating them to the botanical gardens , they could start a little weird fruit explorer garden in your honor
Good thing you put the scientific name. As an amateur mycologist I thought you were going to eat Xylaria polymorpha, which is a fungi also called dead man's fingers.
At highland park in Rochester NY, the home of the famous lilac festival, there is a fantastic collection of plants and you can find this plant in a section that has jujube as well.
I really appreciate you showing us all these unique rare fruits. When I see these unique fruits my thought is I want to see if I can get the plant or at least seed to grow in ground backyard and hoping it can handle our mild winter.
There is a fruit found at the Asian market here in Atlanta that looks similar. It is yellow with several fingers and looks more like a hand. Does not taste like watermelon and not gooey. It’s pricey and really nothing special. Doesn’t have nails and when you get stoned all kinds of fun can be had.
There's 57 exclusive videos up already. All the new fruit I try will end up on youtube. The patreon exclusives are more like DVD extras.. deleted scenes, alternate reviews and stuff like that. There's even a commentary in there.
Thanks. Someone was telling me, in the Caribbean, the have fruit Called a Guavaberry. It's not realated to Guava at all, and used to flavor rum. They reccomended the rum, not the fruit. Just a heads up.
