TRIFOLIATE ORANGE : A Delicious Citrus That May Cause Sickness - Weird Fruit Explorer 

I'm pretty sure eating swords builds ur tolerance to everything.

You missed an opportunity to call the drink "Trifoliade"

Trifoliate orange is approved by the CIA as a security hedge. Four inch thorns make it near impossible to climb without looking like you fought a tiger, and when fully grown, like the ones outside their facilities in virginia, will stop a truck at full speed. That's a mean fucking tree.

one thumbs down: probably the girlfriend

Didn't mention the main thing that people use trifoliate orange for, which is... as a rootstock for other citrus trees. It makes a superb rootstock which tolerates cold, heavy soils, and is disease resistant (downsides: slower growing and dislikes heat and dry soil). The fact that the fruit is full of seeds is good in this regard, because it's the seeds that people want from those fruits - to plant to grow into rootstocks for more desirable fruits! :)

My neighbor gave me a single fruit, telling me it was rare. I planted it immediately, just stuck it in the ground. It looks like a succulent, minimal small leaves, the stems growing in curlicues, covered with thorns. Last year, 2019, when it was about 7 feet tall, & 16 years old, it suddenly burst into the most fragrant tiny white flowers. Eleven flowers, and I got 11 fruits, covered in down. I put them aside for seeds, didn't try them. This year, the plant was covered in flowers, but it was cold & rainy, with no bees. But today I saw I'm going to have tons of fruit. This plant survived being indifferently transplanted, has never been fertilzed, & survived the mega-snows of 2009, completely covered for months. I love this little plant & will take him wherever I go. I didn't even know what it was until last year. I've read that the University of Alabama (?) has a Flying Dragon (it's common name) hedge that is 150 years old, that has kept generations of frat boys hedged in. I live in Zone 7- I don't know the limits of it's cold hardiness. It looks otherworldly with a nice 7 foot high Scotch Broom- also easy to do- though that's not as cold hardy. I love this plant. It's a member of the family. ☺💖🌱🍊

As for using poncirus in selection. I read scientific text about creation citrus varieties (I'm russian and i read russian acticle of Subtropical Research Center, Sochi) and there was information that poncirus gives cold stable plants but they don’t have good tastе qualities. However, I think that poncirus are good and perspective. I bought this tree few weeks ago and now it grows at my home. (i'm a gardener student and i like growing some interesting plants) Thank for your video! Btw, in russian we call poncirus not orange, but lemon ("wild lemon", "lemon trifoliata")

your girlfriend may be sensitive to latex, I have had this reaction to eating too much jackfruit.

One person's poison is another person's medicine. Hoping your GF gets better soon. Also, LOVED the outro. Vostok is such a cutie!

I have a trifoliate orange tree in my yard. I've never been brave enough to try it, but my baby niece loves the fruit. Maybe I'll try it now

I live in East TX,and in the rural areas,you encounter the trifoliate orange.We call them wild lemons.Very sour, and you can make a lemonade like drink out of it,tasty.

Common rootstock in north Florida due to cold tolerance. Often the grafted-on citrus dies of cold leaving a slightly damaged trifoliate orange tree that has no trouble with the climate.

The dislikes. 1 - From his girlfriend. 1 - From his girlfriend's parents.

I glad to see someone has finally come up with a recipe for trifoliate orange-ade. This is the first video I've seen for using trifoliate oranges to make a beverage. I've seen recipies for sour Calamondin orange-ade and sumac-ade, but never trifoliate orange-ade. I'm considering growing this plant where I live in Ohio.

The way your head just pops into the video at 6:38 made me laugh so much. There's something about the way you just dangle it in there to say that line that is completely hilarious!

i think it's not toxic in the usual sense, but as with a lot of essential oils the terpene profile can trigger reactions. not a lot of people know that essential oils are notorious for causing dermatitis (like, more cases than maybe anything else), and yet people are always putting them on their skin. and it's a sensitivity that can develop with use. iirc i think the issue with trifoliata is that the juice has unusual levels of terpenes, but the skin is about the same as any other citrus skin

Ive squeezed this fruit in my water and loved it. This tree it comes from is very beautiful and I love it

People are often surprised that the same chemical can cause different effects in different people. It’s more obvious with stuff like marijuana or alcohol, but even “poisons” effect people differently

I love those things. We have them in North Georgia. We call them wild lemons, but I'm sure they are the same thing. Very sticky and sour. I never eat them raw, they make great juice, and I squeeze them onto lots of stuff on the grill. Very cool review

I am no expert but I am pretty sure the bit about boiling the waxy, resiny, rinds with the simple syrup was the kicker.

Your spliced in reminders are hilarious.

The edits were on point with this one lol. Your poor girlfriend! And once again, your cat steals the spotlight with her adorableness.

I planted two of these a while back (the Flying Dragon variety), just starting to get some decent yields, this year looks to be good. Wonderful smell, and it's a neat looking bush. If you slice several into thin wedges and stuff them into a bottle of vodka and let it infuse a few days it makes a GREAT flowery floral citrus vodka that goes wonderful with Sprite or ginger ale. Very sorry for your gf, probably gave over a dozen folks some vodka and it universally went over well. Definitely going to try and make some kind of preserves this year.

I found one of these growing in a park near my house. It's thorns are as big as my finger!!

I love all the harsh intaking of breath interludes.

I’ve heard these are often used for grafting and hybridization due to their genetic diversity and cold tolerance

It would be interesting to know what chemical in the fruit causes those symptoms, and more so why you weren't affected. great video as always.

Ate this once and started throwing up from my ears

I've got this as a rootstock on one of my citrus trees, and it started suckering. Beautifully lethal looking. I removed it, tried to get it to root, failed miserably. I think it was a punishment for my fantasies of it growing big enough to use as a neighbour deterrent.

It is an eye opener, Thank you for demistyfying the fruit taste and its flavors. Now I need to find one to try for myself.

For those wondering, Poncirus trifoliata can withstand drops into the upper negatives (F), and so is pretty much hardy in a continental zone 6b, and can be pushed to as low as zone 5b with varying levels of winter protection.

Yay I’m planting it this weekend! I love lemonades and grapefruit ♥️

I love how these smell, reminds me a little of gardenia. Definitely resinous. Had one a few years back that I let my roommate smell and he thought it was disgusting. Adorable furbaby

First rule, don't feed your GF anything that you've had in the fridge for a week.

The flavor sounds like it would be my favorite fruit... I really want to try it but I don't have access to it and don't want to poison myself lol

Finnally!!!! Waited so long for this video, thank you!!

Makes a good rootstock, and from Zone 6 south, a very effective living fence. Great Swallowtail caterpillars will eat it, like Citrus, though the normal northern hosts are toothache tree (Zanthoxylum) and wafer ash (Ptelea).

Thanks for the ecipe, especially the zest bit. My seedling may have fuit in 3-4 years.

the dislikes are -his girlfriend -that one person that says that he pelled it wrong -that one person that says that he juiced it wrong

There was a trifoliate orange bush in my old neighborhood in Philly and I frequently grabbed them as I walked by and ate them. They aren't very good as citrus goes but it never caused me a problem.

Jared should start trying his sour and bitter stuff with miracle berries so there are two different reviews in one!!

Sounds tasty. I just got one and was mostly excited to see it's gnarly twisted limbs. I'm now excited for the fruit too.

Cute kitty cat ending!!!

This was so cool. I loved the inserted warnings! Now, I want to try it, since it sounds delicious. Love your cat too!

I know these, they smell wonderful.I once made a syrup with them & some honey& walnuts. Very delicious. No ill effects in my case.(but yeah will keep in mind that some people may react badly to it)

Found this in prospect park in NCY 2 years ago. Picked a few. Made a juice. Puked my brains out.

Great episode, well done and I enjoyed the advisories.

This was great! I stumbled upon this growing wild in Maryland and transplanted some shoots into my yard. You didn't mention the crazy thorns on the plant, but you may have only seen the fruit. Fruit smells wonderful and I like your description of lime + grapefruit + floral.

So interesting! I like the juice, and when I was studying horticulture in Arizona 40+ years ago, it was in the Poncirus genus. Thanks for this one.

I’m making a vid on salting and fermenting the rind in its own juice- great condiment for stews. Also added vanilla and cardamom to one batch which tastes amazing and works as a topper on savory grain bowls

It makes a great beverage in Japan like our lemonade and they just mix it with alot of sugar or honey and very often liquor.

Always so insightfull and objective! Need to mention, that because if its cold hardiness, it is the normal rootstock to graft all varieties of comercial citrus. Sometimes it even replaces the original planted citrus varieties because if its strengh. Greetings!

Great video! I love your cat.

This was a really fun video. Thanks!

You’ve got an Iron stomach from all your travels.

It's the rootstock they graft to to achieve a dwarf citrus because it's slow growing as a rootstock I have a kaffir lime grafted onto one . Also cook a half into almost any curry ... yum Hi from western Australia

Found one of these growing in Philadelphia a few years ago. I love the smell, although some people are very averse to the smell... I candied the find, but unfortunately some of the pith came with it so most pieces were extremely bitter. I used them as a cocktail ingredient and a dare for risk-taking friends. Will have to try making juice out of em!

You make the sort of content that I cannot imagine any rational person disliking. I love this channel so much

Loved this video! So entertaining 😬

It is a True citrus (not a hibrid like 95% of the citrus fruit we eat), It is used for hedges and for rootstock for grafting other citrus because of the frost resistance. Dry peel is also used for tea. Cheers, your videos are great.

Interesting fruit! Sleepy Vostok is so cute.

I really love trifoliate orange; a grower near me has the flying dragon variety. The flavor is like no other citrus I've tried, but the resin they release is ridiculous to clean up. When I extract the fruit with vodka, all of my equipment takes a double application of CitraSolv degreaser/degummer to get most of it off. More resin recrystallizes after a week or so at the bottom of the bottle of the strained extract. Well worth it, though, for a really delicious extract I can use in cooking and cocktails.

Loved this episode! What a unique "orange"! :)

A measuring cup! It’s a lot more fun to watch you just pour ingredients together while you eyeball them. I love your show. So many fruits I hadn’t heard of.

You should try sumac-ade made from the stag horn sumac

This is worthy of some of the paranormal videos I watch. Looks like fun, but also terrifying.

These are actually invasive where I live. I go hiking through the forest where they grow in thick groves where you have to duck and weave making sure you wear glasses and a motorcycle jacket so you don’t get punctured. One day I fell off a 10 foot sand embankment onto a pile of the things. I can’t even describe what that was like but the oranges taste good

#spectacular #educationalvideo #howto aspect and #humour are really good! #like

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The inside looks a lot like a Filipino calamansi, and the way you describe the taste sounds a lot like it too.

I've been given a couple of these plants and I intend to grow them. My hope is that I can use them as a lemon replacement to add acidity to food, i.e. squeezing it over cooked green veggies or adding to a sauce etc. Would you say that it is reasonable to expect they can be used in this manner?

I've been trying to figure out what this plant was for years. I've seen two plants in Oklahoma (very many years apart) and I'm strangely drawn to the weird smell of it. I'd like to infuse the outer peel into tea, like bergamot. It has a similar strangeness. Maybe a new kind of Earl Grey could come of it. I'd definitely like to try your bergamot tea infusion method with it. Maybe with green tea and call it "Earl Bright". See if it makes anyone sick before I market it.

I have this in my yard!

You've seemed familiar to me for a while without me being able to put my finger on it. You remind me of Charlie Cox in "Daredevil." Love your channel! Cool combination of foodie stuff and botany stuff (even if the latter is unintentional). Gives me a good idea of what I should and shouldn't try to grow.

fun fact, the usda did a bunch of experiments trying to hybridize the trifoliate orange with other citrus fruits to make them cold hardy. and im fairly certain it worked because there are lemons that used to grow in a cow pasture near where i live (east Tennessee). ps. its actually a really interesting story about how they got there so hit me up if anyone wants to hear the whole thing.

Lmao your edits on this one were gold. 😂

Tridoliade, a delicious citrus drink.

That kitty is so soft and sweet.. and SUCCULENT!!!! 😺😸😺😾🙀🧟‍♂️🙀👽🙀👾🙀👻🙀🤖🧒👹🙀👿🙀☻🙀💩🙀👶😺☠👶☠😿🦑😺

I have one of these trees in my yard and one year I made a syrup out of the juice of the fruit and then used that to make cookies. My mom loved the cookies but they were very rich and I didn't care for them very much but they were very citrusy.. and very good, if you only ate one or two. That being said, my mom ate several and loved them, so I gave her all of them. 😆 I don't particularly care for key lime pie or lemon pie and the cookies tasted very similar to those, so, if anyone is interested in that, try making syrup out of them.

I'm growing some in zone 6 massachusetts. I want to try this so bad!

Here in Costa Rica A trifoliate rootstock known as "Swingle" is used for grafting Valencia oranges onto. On one of my trees the scion died leaving the Swingle rootstock to grow and eventually fruit. I cut one of them open and licked it, it was one of the bitterest things I've ever tried. Now I'm wondering if they need to get REALLY ripe and then they taste better.

theres also a hybrid between Poncirus and Orange its called Citrange used as rootstock for grafting and I think it could be edible also

How does it compare to a yuzu? Reason why I ask is I have a tree in the backyard that seems to be a cross between used to and trifoliate and can’t decide

Aahh.... resinous. Not bad tasting. Just a absolute nightmare to clean up...Мixed the pith with honey... Nobody had any negatice reactions to it btw..

There's a trifoliate orange tree near where I live. I love the smell of the fruits but the taste of the juice is strong l. I've used it in margaritas before but definitely noticed it seemed to unsettle my stomach a bit. The tree is incredibly hardy, its survived incredibly cold ice weather in north central Texas.

When a Duncan grapefruit and a trifoliate Orange were mixed together; they created the Citrumelo... you should see if you can find one of those bad boys, they can grow pretty huge.

That title has some sick bars

Yay calico kitty, I love mine.

Oh my gosh! My cat looks so similar to yours! Like same markings and everything. I rescued her, so I have no idea what breed she is and figured she wasn't anything normal.

This is amazing I wish it was more available

I live in Northern Virginia and I have one of these plants. Cold weather is not a problem. It is not invasive. It is in my front yard. The thorns on the plant are mighty. During the summer, I need to spray it about 3 times because tiny insects get under the leaves and they turn yellow and drop. In the spring, the bush gets covered with small white flowers. My bush is about 15 feet tall. The branches are very stiff and hard. Maybe the wood would be good for making knife handles? The fruit is extremely sour. Smelling the fruit leaves you with no doubt that this is a citrus plant. I obtained this plant from a company here in Virginia named "EdibleLandscaping.com". It was a cutting from a stem that they put a rooting hormone on and stuck it in a small pot. I went home and planted it. The big attraction for me was the gnarly shape of the stems and the huge thorns. If you plant this under your window, there is no burglar that would ever challenge it. It produces many many fruit and I have no pollinator for it. It pollinates itself. This link will take you to the website where I got mine. ediblelandscaping.com/products/tropicals/Citrus/TrifoliateOrange.php A basketball hoop is 10 feet tall. My plant is several feet higher than 10 feet.

Recently moved into a new place in Northern Tennessee and found one of these in the back yard. Gonna try out making a marmalade or something come fall

I just bought this and a miracle fruit shrub plant thing wonder what will happen if I eat both lol

Have you tried any hardy citrus hybrids like citranges or, citrangequats?

We have a less seedy version of it in India. In West Bengal, we call it "paati lebu" in Bengali. It is really common here. It is used as lime.

Reminds me of the nasty full of seed "lemons" on my Meyer Lemon tree. Not lemony, mostly orangy lemony.

Does it has the same effects as bitter orange in episode 25 "pseudo ephedra like"?

Just learned that my lemon tree has been grafted onto the rootstock of this

It is considered invasive, but maybe that is because no one uses it for anything, otherwise it might be considered as a wonderful cold hardy producer of a special fruit. I have only found fruit on them here one or two times in 20 year so some woods dweller(s) must find them fine as they are sans addition of sugar. They really produced a lot of blossoms this year

So the church I was going to had a missionary fielded in Madagascar, while he was visiting home he brought a big bag full of jackfruit for everyone to try on Sunday morning. I'm not sure If what he had was brought back with him or if he sourced it stateside but I was thrilled to get to try it since I knew what it was and had always wanted to try it. I had a few pieces and could dig the texture, and the flavor to me was like a mild blend of tropical flavors, especially pineapple and banana. A few moments later siting in the car waiting for my brother to get out, I feel the back of my throat tickle and I can feel my throat closing. Yep, for some reason I'm allergic to jackfruit. There's always a risk when eating anything, but I'd rather be brave. I'm very glad to have been able to try jackfruit regardless of the consequence.