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New Zealand Native Shrub Tree Tutu
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- Sorry the Supplejack Asparagus comes off the end of the black Supplejack vine, not the end of the Supplejack leaves!
New Zealand Tutu (Coriaria) is one of New Zealand's most poisonous plants. All parts are poisonous especially the seed that are contained in the purple fruit. The juice was ingested by the early Maori and sometimes it was allowed to ferment into somewhat of an alcoholic beverage. I can only assume that the pulp of the berries is also safe as this is where the juice comes from. I have ingested the purple pulp and juices of just a few of the berries, I was very careful not to consume any of the very tiny seeds, ensuring that I had removed them first. I had no ill effects, but I did feel slightly light headed for a short time afterwards. to be honest, I am not sure if this was all just in my mind or not? The taste very closely resembled an alcohol beverage called "Purple Goanna".
From my recollection, there is no known antidote to the poison called "Tutin". Therefore extreme caution must be taken at all times when handling tutu.
Early Maori would invoke vomiting if someone was suspected of Tutu poisoning. One way I believe was to force the person to swallow sea water.
Wikipedia states that their are 17 species of this shrub / tree. And that only the fruits of Coriaria terminalis is edible - Coriaria terminalis is found in Sichuan, Tibet, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan. • New Zealand Native Pla...
I would highly advise anyone considering identifying Tutu to watch my video New Zealand Native Plant - Kareao (Supplejack).
As these two plants have almost identical leaves and young shoots that looks like asparagus. So I would caution anyone to learn about both of these species before doing anything else with them.
Thank you, I worried about misidentifiying Tutu for supplejack.
Excellent video, Great work :)
Thanks man good video yes i have allways been warey of bush honey in our bush its not only The sting you Get,!
The tohunga used it for a seditive best left to The experience of a tohunga too .
Bees will even make honey out of it (and that's safe for the bees but not human consumption). Any bee keepers in the north island (well pretty much from north of Nelson up) have to get honey tested for tutu.
there have been 2 separate deaths of elephants. One in 1869 in Otago, and the other near Tongariro in the 1960's. More recently 2 Indian elephants became very ill but were saved with barbituates. Horses don't get sick from tutu. I saw a young cattle beast affected and we told the farmer who said we should have cut an ear off for a controlled bleed. I said what should we do if it doesn't help and he said cut off the other ear!
Tutu plants hybridise with each other into clines. We see a lot of feathery tutu and clines of this with larger tutus.
I understand that honey from particular areas prone to tutu contamination is diluted by safe honey for sale. Apparently the honey comes from bees feeding off a honeydew insect's secretion. This mite lives on the tutu plant.
3 tourists became ill in the Cobb Valley from eating hundreds of berries. They had seizures and were treated with diazepam. I've read (Elsdon Best?) that some Maori communities administered the seawater by burying the victims who were children, up to their necks in sand. This is a good way to control movement I suppose and make the task easier.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge about such interesting plants from your country.Been watching all your plant videos.From Romania.
You are very welcome Mihai and thanks for joining all of us over here in Aotearoa (New Zealand). I also subscribed to your channel.
Good to know - maybe at some point I will manage to do a trip over there. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome and its my pleasure.
In the book "Eatable native plants of New Zealand " is written the petals are eatable. What about the petals of flowers of the Tutu?
Thoroughly informative and interesting video. It always amazes me when you find something where most of the plant is deadly poisonous, but one part is edible. How people discover that is beyond me. I'd stay the heck away!
Hey brother. New sub here. Great video, and great information. I've always been fascinated with the New Zealand Bush. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and skill.
Stay blessed
Thanks so much for sharing. I’m in the south island and think I lost a sheep yesterday to tutu. Now I have to remove it from the property. I’ll ask at doc. But if you have any advice on removal that would be great thanks.
Sorry about your sheep Sue, DOC will probably have the best information for permanent removal of Tutu. I would think removing it from anywhere where people visit often would be important to them.
Thanks again for your help. The tutu I’d killed a year ago hadn’t regrown at all. We spent 2 hours searching yesterday but didn’t find Tutu so maybe it was something else like a fungus. Thanks sue
Very cool stuff, I'm glad I found someone that knows some New Zealand bush craft. Have you found any matai or mitro fruit? I'm interested in what those taste like.
good to see you back, missed your videos .
do you know how to make this alcoholic beverage? if so can u share?
Hey Brian, I have never made it myself. But I would assume a number of people that make home brews might a few ideas?
@@KiwiBushcraftAndSurvival ill keep digging round the net, might come up with something. cheers glen.
@@brianrosoman570 all good bro, if I come across anything I will share it on here also. I do remember reading something along the lines of, "if tutu juice was left out in the sun over several days, that it could be found that it had fermented. And that it would have the effect similar to that of alcohol. I am just going of my memory from a long time ago.
@@KiwiBushcraftAndSurvival appreciate it, i been looking into rongoa also got several books and am studying them, so much to learn.
@@brianrosoman570 Here is a good lick with some more information: ngaitahu.iwi.nz/our_stories/he-aitaka-a-tane-the-tutu-paradox/
Gidday bro.
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Cheers nzhuntahr, I ordered the stove last night for $35 NZD off ebay. And although I haven't got my hands on the stove yet. My research and gut instincts tell me this stove will do the job nicely, especially with a few mods that I have in mind.
The other website is good also.
Cheers again brother.
@@KiwiBushcraftAndSurvival Good stuff mate. Show me your mods once done.
@@nzhuntahr Will do
Here is a couple of small write ups of a young man back in 2015 that ate Tutu thinking it was Supplejack and almost paid the ultimate price: www.wildernessmag.co.nz/ate-tutu-lived-tell-story/
and where a hunter also became a victim of tutu: www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/undoctored/warning-after-tutu-berry-poisoning
I made a similar error miss identifying and eating a Ponga tree called Wheki Ponga Tree Fern for Black Mamaku Tree Fern. Needless to say, when you make a mistake once in this field, you sure can pay the price for it and you definitely learn your lesson.
So yeah, it is very very important to properly identify something before eating it, or it could be the last mistake you ever make.
I have used a few plants for Ronga over the years, but not many.
It is something I wouldn't mind learning more about, especially the flora with antibacterial and antiseptic qualities.
Good on you mate.
Which native trees i can find in rotorua?
heres some more info on it for you maoriplantuse.landcareresearch.co.nz/WebForms/PeoplePlantsDetails.aspx?firstcome=firstcome&PKey=7A36838B-F469-409A-881D-8F0EB53A4668
choice vid bro tu meke