I have a ground cherry plant that I have been reluctant to try, because it popped up as a weed in my flower garden and nothing can kill it. I suspect it originated from seeds in opossum poop. Anyway, it’s fingernail sized but delicious.
As a prolific home cook , I think you should learn how to cook. I understand that you are a natural eater of raw non meat ingredients, but you might want to bring some ethnic cooks into your channel to show people how to use the amazing ingredients you showcase.
"Phenotypic Variations in the North American Trash Panda" is one of my favourite RU-vid videos of all time. Well, that and "Tony Santoro's Guide to Illegal Tree Planting". Seriously, what a grade A channel.
I learned this term in college for Landscape Design. Half of our final exam was identifying different trees and shrubs, outoors in December, in New England. Worst final exam I ever had! BTW I never went into Landscaping or anything related to it, lol.
I am from Ecuador and I've never seen that fruit, the closest thing I've tried is Lulo or Naranjilla as we call it here. It looks very similar to it but it is more meaty and seedy, very interesting. I'm going to ask my family if any of them have ever tried it
It's funny to think that at this point you're probably the only good information on what the fruit tastes like on the internet 😂 Edit: I hope everyone looks through the replies and verifies that, indeed, mfs are going crazy in da fruit video comments
Which is what he says in the video. It's not probably either, all he talks about and explains shows it IS the only 'good' information on it's taste. Did you not listen to the video? It's like saying "hey, this is like an explanation on how to make this dish!" on a recipe video. If you don't realize the idiocy in that then you're even dumber than you already made sure to show everyone.
It’s quite sad that some fruits have only small information about it. I hope you’re documenting your fruit hunting in writing, and maybe make a book out of it. I’d totally buy that.
@@DardS8Brit would be hilarious if your homework was to make a new dog food recipe at home, have your dog test it and everyone in your cooking class comes back the next day telling the teacher “My dog ate my homework…and loved it! What’s my grade? Did I do good enough?”
you’re really helping me expand my fruit horizons. i just found your channel like a week ago and i don’t know how many videos i’ve binge watched, but it’s a lot. your couch is amazing, i really like your decor, and your kitty. cheers.
It is related to tomatoes, tomatillos, nightshade, potatoes and more distantly, peppers and even tobacco! A big family that you can eat, smoke and even poison someone with!
@@almostliterally593 I specialize in the non-lethal members of the family (peppers, tomatoes, tomatillos... tobacco was the most toxic one on the list until I quit smoking some 30 years ago) There is a strong family resemblance in the flowers of nightshade, capsicums (several have blue or violet flowers rather than white) and tomatoes. Little wonder that the tomato was grown only as an ornamental at first once it was introduced to Europe as its resemblance to nightshade was obvious. The early varieties might have been yellow rather than red as the Italian "Pomodoro" literally means golden apple.
It is indeed really cool. I live in Colombia and we call this (a very similar species Solanum betaceum) Tree tomato and it is most commonly used in making juice. Really inexpensive and nowadays more like a meme-thing because the juice is kind of thick and some say it does not calm thirst. If there's anything I can do to help you get some seeds I'll gladly do it.
Nightshades are some of my favorites. So many varieties of fruits, flowers, sizes and shapes. Different types of poisons and medicinal benefits. Quite mystical.
generally if kids like it its because its sweet, or has the right tartness. kids have very simple pallets so if they like something it's probably really tasty.
Wow. Brian sent me seeds years ago and I grew this plant in California, but it never fruited for me. It is a horribly thorny vine. Imagine a tomato vine covered in tiny hooked knives. When I moved to Hawaii I chose not to bring it with me because it was just too evil.
Don’t trust him to cook, lol. But maybe a collab with a chef would be cool? But ... all of the cooking he’s done on here has been.... on a scale from passable to disastrous, lmfao
I have recommended a dozen times that he should put together either a fruit of the month or just boxes of extraordinary (for one reason or another) fruits.Hey if he could arrange it people could even sit in on your tastings and enjoy the fruit hunt with him.
@@kconrad5893 He's not mocking at all and especially not about his level of excitement... He's straight up joking about a personality trait without being mean about it. Do you really have 0 functional humor appreciation in you? You seem like the type of person that don't get invited anywhere because you make everyone miserable.
@@kconrad5893 mocking whom? I am not mocking Jared. I have been watching him for ages and he's usually generally pretty sedate. You can tell he's amped and it caught me a little by suprise. If I was being a wise ass he'd know, I will even say when I am being smart. You must be new to the party.
@@Snowdone thanks. I am she by the way I know you can only see one of my eyes and I guess curly hair in your face is gender neutral these days 😂 but you got my intention in the comment. You won the net for the night. 😘
@bofa updog It's really hard to describe, but is a fruit that's about half the size of an orange, with almost no meat inside. When it's in season time, it's not sweet. Have kind of a neutral flavor, more like a salty flavor than a sweet flavor. I think you can say that it tastes a little bit like Brazil nut(not a lot) The texture vaguely remembers a mango(i think this is the most close from the texture, but it's really hard to describe, even after years of eating this fruit lol). You need to peel off the shell before eating. Sorry if i couldn't describe the fuit in the best way possible. It's really hard to describe it based on other things that i tasted. It's a really unique flavor.
Was it legal for that guy to take those seeds to Hawaii? Did he have to sneak them past customs? I think Hawaii has a lot of problems with non native species growing there, right?
@@Melissa0774 In theory you are not supposed to bring plants out from abroad without filling out a boat load of paperwork. I forget the name of the certificate you need. People do it all the time though. There is plenty of plants that exist here in the states that should not exist. A good example is Whitman farms sells a King James Mulberry (Chelsea) tree. For reference it is from a tree that was in the Chelsea gardens in Europe. Now Americans can enjoy the plants that were once limited to only the Chelsea gardens in Europe. Other examples include things like peppers which often grow naturally in South America and are actually quite invasive where it does not freeze.
There are a lot of plants that are documented in print but have almost nothing about them online. That was true ten years ago when I was taking an interest, and it still seems to be true today.
When i tell you i am obsessed with these videos... i have a hard time understanding the descriptions that food reviewers give. But i feel like these descriptions are really great
Looks like a hybrid between a lulo and a tamarillo. It's interesting to see a rare fruit from South America. Also, I swear, you could easily be a food taster... Figuring out flavors in coffee.
It's correct name is Naranjilla since it only grew in a certain place in Ecuador and was finally grafted so it can grow in other zones. They even changed plane routes to avoid damaging the original plant. Like the Panama hat, it's native only to Ecuador. 😊
@@puttytat007 -Solanum pachyandrum occurs on the western slopes of the Andes and in the Huancabamba Depression of Ecuador (Prov. Manabí) and Peru (Depts. of Cajamarca, La Libertad, and Tumbes) in moist forests on slopes; 200-1,000 m. The Ecuadorian type collection is somewhat disjunct from the rest of the species distribution.
*so* many Solanums! and they can be practically all grafted onto each other. favorite trivia this week: i heard that five people once died eating tomatoes that were grafted onto jimson weed (same family different genus. seems like you can graft tomato onto tobacco too)
I really want to grow these and obtain seeds for them. Do you have the contact info on the person that sent you the fruit mabye I can obtain seeds from him. Or perhaps you have some seeds saved? Please let me know.
I’m always skeptical when people insist a fruit tastes like a specific candy. I saw this and thought it would be similar to lulo. I love how good you are a describing the subtlety of flavors in relatable ways!
Eggplant green bean HI-C vanilla orange tomato taste that also tastes like a bland Apple that is like a water melon rein. Could you be more confusing!!!!!🤦🤷🙍
I’m currently growing this and so far my plants are doing well. My only concern is how they will grow in my climate and if I will need to bring them indoors during the winter. I live in Southern California in zone 8b.
Looks like a watermelon, back when it was mostly rind (that you can see in certain old paintings). So, with time or in the modern time with the help of technology, it could become mostly flesh!
IIRC the old timey paintings are not older varieties but rather drought years. Even today watermelons will look that way if you have a shitty weather year. Because you won't have big cavities inside watermelons, you just will have different flavours, ratios, and shapes of the red and white flesh depending on variety. btiscience.org/explore-bti/news/post/harvesting-genes-to-improve-watermelons/ has a few great photos
I always found it funny too that not many of these rare fruit have their taste described. In my experience though some fruit can be hard to describe the taste of because different types of a certain fruit can taste way different. A good example is with mulberries where there is no uniform taste. Something like a White Pakistan will be so sweet people describe it as tasting like honey while other mulberries can be super tangy and other mulberries that are not named variety can be very bland so I guess how would you describe that flavor when there is no uniform flavor.
Hi, I'm from Ecuador, I don't know if this can help you but try asking for it in small markets. It is more probable you can find uncommon fruits on them. In my experience, I've never heard about this fruit before but I think you can find it on the sierra where they apparently grow.
Wow, so many comments. I have a couple plants but so far now fruits. I just found a new one in Mexico that looks similar but with red jello like flesh this week
@@DaveTexas that’s why they ask! Here’s hoping that the future is full of new options at stores. They are bringing out lots of lost apples and novelty products.
have you ever tried pequi fruit ( Caryocar brasiliense )? It's a fruit that you can't bite through because it's full of thorns inside, whose protect a nut wich is edible. But it's skin is also edible and that's the part we usually eat, so you always gotta be precautious while eating it
Solanum pseudolulo , Solanum sessiliflorum - Cocona, Solanum quitoense - Lulo and Solanum lasiocarpum - species in Solanum sect. Lasiocarpa can form infertile hybrids. Wonder if this species is included?
I'm trying it here in Massachusetts and the plant is starting to take off. Hopefully I can get some fruit off of it. The thorns should help keep the animals away
@@ericlivingston8027 I have seen those videos but I mean out of the fruits that are so rare he may never be able to try them again or other fruits that are extraordinarily difficult to come by, which is the one he would want to eat again. But thank you for the reply.
Somewhat resembles Lulo, Solanum quitoense... Never heard about "Bombona", must be locally known only... I'm trying to find Antonio Brack's work on native fruits from Perú...
I am Peruvian, work with plants and just me😊t bombona this week , exactly in north mountaneos forests of Perú, close to Ecuador . I took one to grow it in central Perú
pericarp [ per-i-kahrp ]SHOW IPA SEE SYNONYMS FOR pericarp ON THESAURUS.COM noun Botany. the walls of a ripened ovary or fruit, sometimes consisting of three layers, the epicarp, mesocarp, and endocarp.
I'm guessing in the past, people didnt know how to describe the taste? They probably had limited palates/diets to draw comparisons from, especially compared to WeirdExplorer in 2020. . It was just probably just considered "bombona" flavor.
The fruit was not seen by Bitter when he described the plant as a new species. Also called "naranjilla" (= little orange, also used of _Solanum quitoense_ ) in Peru, near where it is also called "bombona" (= gas cylinder?, though bombon means candy/chocolates/bonbon). legacy.tropicos.org/Specimen/1200638 legacy.tropicos.org/Specimen/1251229 www.tropicos.org/name/29601741 One of the original herbarium specimens collected by HFA von Eggers in 1897 in Ecuador can be seen at science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/p/item/p00367219 It is very spiny. Others can be seen here but you need to register and possibly pay. plants.jstor.org/search?plantName=Solanum+pachyandrum One says, in Latin: totally spiny shrub, clambers high, flower: fleshy, white, fruit: globose, 3cm, in forest. Another says much the same but that the fruit is 4cm and uses a different word for totally prickly. That fruit you had looked bigger than 4cm. Never recollected from the type locality in Ecuador, no other collections from outside Peru. www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332015000100001 It appears to be called Bambona on a site called Instagram but that website does not appear to be easily navigable.
