Pacific Madrone (Arbutus menziesii): Trying a Native Fruit Raw & as Juice! - Weird Fruit Explorer
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- Episode 489: Pacific Madrone (Arbutus menziesii)
Location: Grown in Washington USA (filmed in NYC)
Next episode: Comparing more mangoes from the world's largest mango collection.
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Pardon all the hissing in this one. Filmed this during the winter with a broken radiator.
Also, check out the Strawberry Tree fruit (Arbutus Unedo) Episode here: th-cam.com/video/VXxTMupwbFY/w-d-xo.html
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Weird Explorer A double i at the end of a name is pronounced as ee-aye. I have a degree in botany and plantsmanship and it still gets discussed to this day. However, it’s generally accepted that this is correct.
I also want to thank everyone who sends jarred fruit so he doesn't have to run raid legends or nord vpn ads in his videos
Thank you Raymond for providing the fruit for this episode.
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I hadn’t heard of raid legends til you mentioned it now I’m addicted, cheers man!
Maybe you should consider seeking sponsorship Jarrod besides the couple fruit stores.
I get emailed by sponsors sometimes. some funding would be nice, but it's never enough money for me to consider weakening the content for.
Caught up, bought a shirt, joined the Patreon. This has been one of the best viewer experiences of my entire time on TH-cam!
thanks so much!
I think madrone is most famous for its beautiful bark.
Im from northern CA and we call madrones "refrigerator trees" because it's so smooth and cold you can cool yourself down by pressing yourself to it.
Pacific Madrones are some of my favorite trees! I have heard the latin name pronounced arr-byu-tis men-zee-see-eye. (Sorry I know that's not proper phonetics).
Don't even try to correct his pronunciation. He always says things wrong. It makes me want to correct him. But then i remember that's part of his show. I like him.
Hell will freeze over before people pronounce Latin and Latinized words consistently. English orthography is the like a papercut on your eyeball
Lewis Johnson you’ve described it so well!
I’m from Nanaimo where these are from and yeah it’s pronounced arrr byu tiss
worse yet, 'menzies' is traditionally pronounced 'mingus' or something close to that
I came across your channel because of the strawberry tree fruit, when i bought them in portugal and didn't know what that was. Became your fans since then, that's almost 5 years ago. It's amazing to see how your channel grow from then. Congrats
Where I used to live, there was a trail and I used to eat these. Near my house, there was also a bush with another fruit I'm guessing from the same family. I never actually knew for sure if they were edible lol.
probably arctostaphylos if it's a bush there's tons of species across CA
@@Finn-hh3ty i dont think it was that, they were like small round spiky berries, and i was in like central california near the bay
Paw paws comin in soon! Love your content man, been watching for years
thanks! yeah paw paws are the best
If you eat much you can alucinate. In Portugal we make house alcoholic drink out of it. Aguardente de Medronho! Love your channel
These are one of my favourite trees! I've spent around 4 months altogether on Vancouver Island and I love the arbutus, which are abundant. Never had the luck to be there while they were in fruit, though.
Mainly interested in the fruit for experimenting with growing them from seed, rather than wanting to eat them
It's in the ericaceae family just like the heath it makes a great honey ( arbutus unedo gives the most bitter honey )
The colour of that drink you made is beautiful. And I wonder if you could distill a spirit out of the fruit, similar to madrono!
The genus iname in common syllables: men-zee-see-eye
The two final i's have different pronunciations.
ah ha!
It's a mechanical (bad) construction of a fake Latin genitive, and also (traditionally) mispronounced. The normal Latin genitive of a second declension man's name would be -i. Marcus = Marcus; Marc-i = OF Marcus. But many Latin mens' names end in -ius: Lucius, Tullius, etc. This gives genitives like Lucii, Tullii. Botanical Latin, being set up more for laughs than scholarship, takes this double -ii ending and mechanically tacks it onto male names of whatever origin, "to honor the discoverer." Hence Menzies-ii. Normal Latin would be pronounced ee-eeee for this. After the Great Vowel Shift we started saying (grotesquely) our vowels as "AY-ee, EE-ee, AH-ee, OH-Woo, YEE-oo." The first i of-ii being a short i, it retain a fairly normal pronunciation; the second i being long, the Great Vowel Shift turns it into an "eye." The Romans would have pronounced Lucii as LOU-kee-eeee, the second vowel longer, but the same kind of sound.
@@mrminer071166 based, I was just about to explain this too
Verdant Pulse English orthography sucks. Hell will freeze over before people pronounce Latin and latinized words consistently.
I have been eating them raw about five years or so. collected a bunch today. November nineteenth, and uh, a garnish with my dinner now but thank you i love them. an acquired taste? delicious! thank you. great video.
juice, wine? yes! yum Pacific Northwest.
Have you ever reviewed plums. I had this plum that was as big as an orange. It looked like a giant cherry, The inside was deep red through to the pit, juicy and very sweet. It was not a black plum, it was sold as a gourmet and as an imported plum. I only saw it twice and never saw it again. No one at the supermarket where I bought it has ever heard of it. When I bought it the two times they were years apart and the market only had a small amount of them. Try to find this plum. You will not be disappointed. It might be from the Caribbean.
There are shitloads of giant red plums with red all the way through.
There are also hybrid cultivars between both species :)
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Thank you!
it helps to eat those as late in the season as possible for the least astringency. One time I cooked some and they set up as a very solid jelly. So they might contain a lot of pectin.
this sounds like it might make a nice wine
I was thinking mead. The fruit tannins and acid would lend structure to the finished mead, and the honey increases the gravity of the must.
Arbutus andrachne grows in my country, but havent tried any
Awesome stuff! I'm realy glad you liked it!
Funny enough, there is a recipe for madrone berry wine. I hope to make it as soon as they're ripe this year.
Mmmmm gamey forage juice 😁
We say "AR-BYOO-TUSS MEN-ZEE-ESS-EE-AI(or EYE like eyeball). That double "i" in botanical names apparently gets pronounced, like each "i" has a sound. We have a tree popular here in California called Arbutus Marina, with a similar fruit that looks more like the Undedo maybe than this one. My friend got me to eat one many years ago! it was not bad, kind of seedy though.
Arbutus unedo is called madroño in Spanish so the name madrone for the northwest one is probably a heritage of the Spanish colonization.
Yay. I just saw one of these and was wondering what the fruits are like.
Interesting! I’ve never heard of making a beverage from them. I’ve tasted the fruits but had always heard it was famine food, and thought I understood why.
Have you tasted Salal fruit?
yes!
Interesting little fruit.
I live in the Puget Sound Region. One Native recipe I have read about was a mash of those berries, salmon meat an some kind of fat. It was an aboriginal protein bar.
I'm guessing it was dried salmon meat as that was the most common form. I've heard dry salmon dipped in melted whale fat was a popular snack.
interesting! sounds like a kind of pemican
i think it’s about time for an astringency scale with all these foraged fruits
Interesting to see Pacific Madroños ( is interesting to see how the spanish "madroño" word derived to 'madrone".
Seems like a ketchup candidate
Maybe in the fall when the berries coming back on the trees again
Interesting fact: these trees have resisted over 50 years of attempts at propagation and transplantation efforts. The University of Washington had a whole department dedicated toward that goal and was totally unsuccessful. They only grow where they want.
"This species was first cultivated in 1827 and has been planted occasionally as an ornamental tree in Europe and the United States " It appears to be prone to dying unexpectedly but it has been successfully cultivated, according to the USDA Forest Service. www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/mcdonald/psw_2008_mcdonald001.pdf
@Will R: *Said in best Cartman imitation: "Whatevah, whatevah, I grow where I want! Whatevah!"
They like hill sides and nasty gravel glacial till "soil", I know that much, I've never seen one on flat ground unless it was also very near the top of a bluff. They also seem limited to less than 500ft elevation and near the sea.
that explains why i have quite a few in my yard! the soil where i libe is like 80% rocks
North coast wild plum. Tiny bitter good
Did Raymond send you any bark? Madrone is odd in that the outer bark peels off in curls and falls off naturally over time and can be used to make a tea that's similar to rooibos .
I just went foraging with a friend and saw one of these and I was wondering "maybe Jared has a video about it" and there you go xd
Saw the fruits of Pacific Madrone (Arbutus menziesii) North of Arcata, CA 30 years ago. I didn't have any tree or edible plants books with me, so I didn't try it. I was fairly sure it was Pacific Madrone, but was unsure, having never been to the Northwest.
In Lushootseed we call that tree qʷuƛ̓əc.
I'm not familiar with Lushootseed language. But i tried. I came up with something like "kwothluts". Sorry. But it is a beautiful tree. Thank you.
I forgot to say that you are nice. I like your language.
I have one of these trees, living in the PNW.. it's not very big, yet. I guess I'll eat the berries, now. Haha.
That's one of my favorite trees. Take a minute to remember Sinshan, as Ursula k Leguin told us. Madron. It is more of a beautiful tree than a tasty fruit. But it is edible. I use it as a reminder.
Madrone wood is crazy hard and tough, a lot of them are suffering from a disease and as a result dying and being cut down. Rather a lot of twist in the grain and few straight sections so not super useful as lumber and the hardness makes splitting for firewood excessively difficult (nice long hot burn though.)
You don't number (count) your vids anymore?! It was awesome to see how far you're getting!
I decided to put it in the description so it wouldn't make anyone new to the channel feel that they need to start from episode 1 first.
@@WeirdExplorer Ah! I get it, was a bit quick to comment. Thanks for the reply and always awesome content! Sidenote, did you ever had the arbutus that consists of a kind of tubes (like citrus juice vesicles but a bit firmer), where each of the little bumbs on the outside forms a tube like this to the seed in the centre?
I see these trees all the time and never knew they made edible fruit!
It's prounounced men-zee-see-eye :)
I'm a PNW local, I've always heard it pronounced "Ar-byoo-dus men-zee-see-eye"
The madrona tree is immediately recognizable to me cuz I lived a long time around puget sound.. the orangish peely bark is kind of unique...they grow near or just above the tide line but not on the beach...they like rocky areas..all in all a beautiful tree...I often wondered about the usefulness of the fruit..but never tried it...opting to error on the side of caution...so..thanks for the info
The size and colour reminds me of rowan berries, that can be used for a gel, because it contains pectin. I have never taste it, but I have also seen recepies for jam and juice, where it will often be used with apples.
Manzanita tree? Is it reddish brown and the bark curls off? I think also a refrigerator tree where its always cold. If it is, I see these ALL the time as decorative plants
That's so funny. I was raised in WA and NEVER thought about Madonna berries. What do you have for Alabama (I just moved here)
When i was young. I walked a lot. One time in the middle of summer i ate some fruits off a tree on a main road. Turns out I ate a yellow strawberry tree fruit. Didn't know what fruit it was until watching this video and googling.. That was 9 years ago haha
I have a question. When you bite a small fruit, smaller than a cherry, why do you nibble it instead of swallowing it whole? Does it help you taste better, or is it juat a personal preference thing?
Neat
Hey, have you tried Rowan-berries? Sorbus aucuparia, also known as mountain-ash. "Rönnbär" in Swedish. We call the trees "Rönn" and "bär" is berry.
They're very common here in Sweden, and we use them for many things like jam, juice, wine, tea etc. They're not great raw, but I still grab one or two at least once a year, I've learned to appreciate the flavor even though they're a bit too bitter. Also commonly used as decoration during fall, since that's when they ripen, they're very connected with fall and are often seen in paintings, stories and other creative works.
I searched but didn't see any videos from you about them. I can send some once they ripen in September, but I don't know if that's doable since we're so far apart? Anyone got any knowledge about that? Are they available in the US?
They are sometimes grown as ornamentals (especially for fall color) in cold climates, and perhaps by people who are sentimental about (pre Soviet) Russian art. Fireblight makes them difficult in the warmer parts of North America. The fruit and products made from it are never seen in grocery stores, but some mail order nurseries will sell a selection that is supposedly edible without bleting, a Sorbopear called "Shipova" (the Sorbus ancestor of which was Sorbus aria, the whitebeam, which has less decorative foliage), and two of Ivan Michurin's hybrids between Sorbus aucuparia and Aronia or Crataegus (Michurin's names were something like Likyorinaya and Granatnaya, but nurseries call them "Ivan's Beauty" and "Ivan's Belle" in this country; not sure which is which), which look like Rowan except that they are shorter/shrubbier and have wine red rather than orange berries.
Maybe Jared could do a coffee substitute episode with them 🤔
I've got a rowan episode coming up in a month or so :) found these in Finland when I was there
Those are a lot smaller than the berries growing on the madrones near me (Bay Area, CA)
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You might be interested in this little article from Kew Gardens: www.kew.org/read-and-watch/double-coconut-largest-seed-in-the-world
The best tasting Arbutus is the Canary madrone (Arbutus canariensis
) and it's also with the biggest fruit the only problem is it's too rare
the good madrona fruit tastes similar to Salal in my opinion
How does this compare to arbutus marina?
1. The arbutus genus is notoriously difficult to grow/ cultivate, so kudos to whoever grew those.
2. Linean names that end in "ii" indicate naming after a person (in this case, someone with surname Menzies); the suffix is pronounced _ee-eye._ (There are exceptions, such as for names that end in "i" or "y"; e.g., Quercus Buckleyi.)
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That was a mad dose of sugar.
What is the sweetest citrus you have ever had
I'm not sure on sweetest, but my favorite is the satoka
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Why is your sugar in an altoids tin?
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what's your most top5 favorite fruits?
Check his 10 best fruit video
_Arbutus unedo_ fruit tastes best after it has been chilly weather for a few weeks. Changes it drastically.
ar-buewtus
So like your supposed to eat them raw,
right?
internet says that native americans did, but I think its more commonly prepared because of that astringency.
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So it's a mildly dry, flavorful fruit with an herbal-fruit flavor, moderately average sweetness, and no tartness. All of this screams "someone's gonna make a cordial liqueur out of this". It's name even lends itself well to a brand name of high-end liqueur..."Madronii" (Madrone + menziesii).
Another great destination to visit would be the Canary Islands. They have their own Arbutus species which is supposedly good to eat fresh and some other native edible fruit.
A good place to visit for sure.
@4:03: I have to say, that is a nice-looking pan on a nice-looking stove. You're getting serious about cooking.
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Pacific North West? Sounds like it could grow in Europe ... 🤔
It’s totally native to the PNW, but would probably grow just fine in any cool Mediterranean climate.
Ok but why is the name of fruit sound like a deodorant for men
rub it on your pits, it might surprise you
Probably you should take a shower or a wipe. I don't know where waldo is. I'm pretty sure he doesn't wear deodorants for men.
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Ar-BYOO-təs
Or aar·BYOO·tuhs
Oh yeah.