Kousa Dogwood Review - Weird Fruit Explorer Ep. 114 

the NYC raspberry, a rare genus...

He did find it in Central Park.lol

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I thought it looked like a raspberry had a baby with a noni fruit.

I thought it looked like a girl raspberry

Ha! There is a plant nursery near my old middle school that had them out front as well. We kids used to chuck them at the school buses. I now work at that plant nursery so we've come full circle. And then I watch this video and do a little casual research and learn that they are edible, after having searched Arbutus Unedo fruit as well...

i did the same cuz they stank

Lol same

@@bazookallamaproductions5280 are you sure your not thinking of ginkgo fruit?

@@mikella959 positive. they get weird funk when overripe. though i am also familiar with gingko. cheesy little fart fruits lol.

I always thought it looked more like the dinglebop after its pushed through a grumbo.

Jared Rydelek well, youre right, thats the stuff its made from. but you dont call the handle of a knife "wood" because its the material. the big dinglebop part is called floob

i thought it looked more like the fleeb, and he's squeezing fleeb juice into his mouf

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holy shit thats exactly what I was thinking

same story here

You eat em everybody now. You can't help yourself

Unfortunately alot of the things we humans have been told are poisonous or toxic are in fact not at all. There seems to be a slightly nefarious intent to this misconception as many specific included items have amazing beneficial properties inherent to them, such as cancer exclusion for one.

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Did you also eat a lot of these off of a tree outside Walmart

Did you also eat a lot of these off of a tree outside Walmart

The skin on a persimmon is my favourite part it’s the sweetest part and is nice and crunchy.

​@@fluffyhead6377 Not the case for all persimmons, a fuyu for sure, but they're talking about astringent varieties, people freeze them to ripen them faster to get them mushy, reduces astringency.

@@stormevans6897 Freezing unripe astringent varieties doesn't actually cause them to ripen any quicker. I just wait until they're soft before freezing and skinning them, as I find that eating them when they're both ripe and frozen is easier than dealing with a ripe but mushy fruit. I've even frozen a few Hachiyas that appeared to be ripe from the outside but were still under ripe and astringent towards the middle (especially so right under the calyx). It's kinda frustrating when that happens because they're so seasonal around here that even "wasting" one feels like a misuse of a precious resource.

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That's interesting - I'd never heard of this use before. Will have to give it a try.

Makes sense because it seems to me it would have a bunch of tannins.

+ala bala The music I use is from a horror movie, so that kind of slipped in there.

Im really curious, what movie is this song from? The reason I ask is because I'm a huge movie buff and I love old horror movies, I believe it's old because the music you use from that movie sounds very retro.

@Esgedius Cannibal Holocaust

That’s one weird looking fruit! How cool

@@Kiido11 Thanks, could never pin point the song. Always reminded me of M.A.S.H.'s intro song, suicide is painless.

The one that I taste tested had that flavor too... Thought I remembered wrong when I heard others describe the flavor.

Great description for it haha

+Gothemo95 Yeah I would wait until they are super ripe and then take the skins off. I got no astringency that way.

+Jared Rydelek Alright, I will make sure next time they come in.

SAME

Shy_Koneko im for certain that no town would have benches with poisonous fruit trees.

Ryan Who - we have benches in the park with Euonymus bushes around - the fruits are among the most dangerous since they are deadly while tasting nice.

@@Hortifox_the_gardener I have yew trees also at my college campus...

@@TheRyanator36910 Then you're very wrong. Plenty of ornamental bushes and trees have poisonous fruit. I hope you don't try to tell anyone else this. People have died from eating random fruit plenty of times

@@TheRyanator36910 There are datura trees at my school. Lmao

Sure it does! I live in Zurich, and both of the buildings where I have lived since 2009 have had these in the garden! Zurich is colder than much of Germany, and New York, where he is, gets REALLY cold. If these can grow in Zurich and New York, they can grow in Germany!

Look here! www.blumeninschwaben.de/Hauptgruppen/cornus_baum.htm#Japanischer%20Blüten-%20Hartriegel

@@tookitogo Danke für den Tip. Ich habe sie hier nur noch nie gesehen.

@@trex70 Mache im Moment ein FSJ in einem brandenburger Schlosspark. Haben ein paar dieser Büsche da. Ich konnte auch ein paar Beeren probieren. Waren allerdings recht bitter.

I guess that's the standard response when a parent doesn't know what it is

My mom used to tell me that the mulberry tree in my back yard had poisonous berries but last year I asked her what they were and she told me they were mulberries and that they were really tasty -_-) I went almost 5 years thinking my favorite berry was toxic to eat.

Mustache Ham, lol. But seriously she never even went near the tree because she even told me she hates most berries. We had sour black berries growing in the edge of our property's woods that me and my brother and sister used to gorge ourselves on. My mom even tried some and found out they were disgustingly sour when we picked them because me and my siblings thought the green ones were ripe. Long story short me and my siblings used to eat unripe berries for fun. The mulberries always looked like grubs to me so when my mom told me they were poisonous I never even touched them. -_-) so I ended up going nearly 5 years thinking some of the tastiest fruit ive tasted were poisonous. Now I live in a city so I can't grow them and I never see them in the store :(

an 8th dimentional being who cares

Dont leave your email on a school computer, not you obviously. I wasnt even talking to you. Why do you need to but into other peoples conversation?

If it's bitter, I'm a quitter.

If it's bitter, it probably tastes bad.

K Thx No if it's bitter it's probably NBOMe

Justin Jone “That’s what she said!”

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Where are you based?

Wait, OSU?

@@lborlet5204 WCU

They grow on Dogwood trees. Not randomly. I'm sure that's not what you meant but it's what you said and it sounds dumb.

@@jimmyshrimbe9361 by random ass trees i mean that i have random dogwood trees in my backyard for some reason

Weird Weird No Mi

crack crack fruit

Oh, I forgot to mention that your recent question was: (Q) Is there an interest in you doing a video series on hard to obtain spices? (A) Sure, that’s OK. I personally have a preference for organic-spices.

enjoy!

That just adds protein

@@MaxOakland, also adds disease.

+sazji Have you tried them from different trees? Kousa dogwood varies a lot tree to tree.

I will next time. It's too late for them now unfortunately. I'm almost certain I got them too ripe too. I never notice them till the leaves have all dropped, and by that time the insides have turned soupy.

interesting, there must be a lot of variation tree to tree

Is it worth all the work to extract them?

The Foreign Citizen I'm from Richmond too, you should hook me up with that guy's address so i can steal some too ;))

Hahaha... It's been 10 years now. I just remember riding my bike randomly around when I found them.

You gotta download iNaturalist. You can id a lot of plants with it.