SAUSAGE FRUIT Review : Huge Fruit That Elephants Eat - Weird Fruit Explorer in Jamaica
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.พ. 2020
- Sausage Fruit - Weird Fruit Explorer
Can't eat this one, but its such an odd one that its worth talking about.
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Those are some machete skills
Ya did you catch the banter? "Are you going to chop your hand off?" "No! I'm going to chop your hand off." Moves hand back from chop zone.
not really. he looked kinda awkward handling the machete. it would have helped if he put the damn lighter away.
@@blackbway Tf, the dude was accurate af. Let's see you do the same.
@@patrickturner6082 I can and have done better, as I am Jamaican also. Most of us have been practicing to use machetes since we were babies, I started at age 6. He doesn't seem like a regular machete user, especially since he looks quite young and younger files don't have the need to proform primitive skills like gathering fire wood or land clearing or lawn care. If you want to see real machete skills, you would need to see someone prune a hedge with a single machete better than any shears.
@@blackbway he hit his cut every single time. Lmao. It was hella skillful.
People are very ingenious. If you find something you cannot eat then turn it into alcohol.
I am also impressed by the guy with the machete. Every time he hit the fruit it was in the same groove as the previous hit. I would have cut my hand off
With lighter in hand too that was stressing me out!
Lots of practice.
by the standards that i am used to, he was really awkward.
You can make alcohol from anything that's contain sugar.
@David whats the problem, somebody got bullied at school today, trying to release stress trough internet?
fascinating to contemplate the world of fruits that may exist that other mammals can eat but humans cannot.
Also that tree seems amazing.
He hit the same spot each time skills
He had something to prove when another man there told him he'd cut off his hand haha
He was proving his manly skills.
@@WeirdExplorer that's weird
@@dlbstl that's not weird
I’m Jamaican 🇯🇲 and whew 😅 some of these fruits i had no idea existed on our island. I love this channel🙌🏾♥️
Me either!! This one's a first.
Hope garden has sausage tree n the spikey pod tree at the end
Lol saaame
hope y’all know what this does🤣🤣
@@whizkiplz what it does?
I never sausage a thing in all my years
haha oh man..
@@WeirdExplorer for next time, you could take that fruit and see if a restaurant will cook it for you.
😏
Jesus Christ lmao
i LoL'd
1:20
"Oh you gonna chop off your hand"?
"I'm gonna chop your hand"!
"No worry" 😂
Heh heh heh
Oh I have a fun story about sausage fruits! When me and my family were in Kenya way back we brought back one or two sausage fruits we found on the ground home to Sweden. After a few days we noticed a bunch of weird looking moths in our house, looking at the sasuage fruit it had tiny holes in it. Since it was in the middle of Swedish winter, and also stuck in our house, they all died after a few days.
1:16 the other half of the sausage fruit didnt want to be split, so it ran away 😂
I laughed when he said "eh" when he tried to get the seed out of it. It took me hours and hours to get all of the seeds out of them so that I could grow them. The plants are still alive today!
The bonus fruit looks like some species of Sterculia - (loosely) related to cacao
The tree looks a lot like our rainforest figs but the fruit and hairs look more like our native flame tree Brachychiton acerifolius. Same horrible itchy hairs. Few similar species where seeds were roasted as a coffee substitute, but in flame tree usually roasted like a peanut.
@@donovanteale6502 wow
weird explorer reply
The leaves don't look like Sterculia and even less like Brachychiton (which is Australia endemic) it looks more like Pterygota (probably Pterygota bequaertii) which is mostly african where this video was filmed
Atomic Shrimp 🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤
It is always wonderful to see your comments on the other channels I also enjoy!
Have a nice day!
Hey that's Sterculia apetala - you can eat the seeds if you roast them (apparently, haven't tried it myself). Interesting you found it nice smelling as 'stercus' is latin for dung but then I love the smell of Durian so hey-ho.
Poison Toad it is kind of turd shaped tho
just wanted to say the same thing! nice!
Only some of the Sterculias smell of dung. Particularly _Sterculia foetida,_ which was one of the first named by Linnaeus.
I was about to drop by and say that it looked like a sterculia!
yes Sterculia , how do you know which one ??
there are several that are edible.
Compilation idea (I want ROYALTIES)
Top 10 Fruits that Tried to Kill Jared
Good idea!
I think the tree at the end of the video is a Panama tree. At least that is what a reverse image search of the flower suggests.
Definitely a Sterculia of some sort. Don't know about that species, but a species native to Australia is called peanut tree and the seeds are eaten as the name suggests.
@@alasdair_scott I figured it was somehow related to Kurrajong trees
@@alasdair_scott looks to be this one French peanut (Sterculia apetala)
Flowers used against coughs, so could have tried a tea.
How does a bloke get to be so precise with a machete?
kill people
By using it, every day. A good blade is a necessary part of life in that region, and many others.
We used to be able to cut a lawn perfectly with a machete and a stick as support/ guard
@@glnburnz5772 Still do whoever you are.
The accuracy with the machete was amazing.
Same. Exact. Spot. Every time
Those little yellow flowers were so pretty.
I love to photograph tiny flowers like that with a macro lens, they are often far more complex and detailed than u would image from a first glance
@@babydaddy4257 That sounds amazing!! I'd love to see that!!
@@babydaddy4257 I'd like to see that flower in ultraviolet. Willing to bet the purple markings we see in the video are complemented by UV-spectrum markings for pollinators.
I'm very grateful to you for knowledge of the world.
Ah man, you found Sterculia foeta. The nuts of those are known to be tasty. Australia has a native Sterculia that is locally called the peanut tree. Sterculia is a big genus of edible nuts that grow across the tropics across the world. Great find
I could have eaten those? Damn. Lets keep an eye out for them in Australia!
I just planted an Australian peanut tree!! And a blue quandong, and a black apple and apple berry
Super fun video. Thanks. The bonus tree looks like a serious tree that people love.
Ah the trusty Jamaican machete!
Yup lol
I’ve lived in Jamaica all my life and it’s the first I’ve seen a lot of the fruits you’ve been showing.Definitely going to try to acquire some when I can. Thanks man
Funny enough this fruit and videos seems to be in Jamaica. I born and grow in Jamaica and I can’t recall ever seeing this fruit. I want to know where Jamaica
If you’re back in the US and want to give cooking sausage fruit a try let me know. There’s a huge tree down on the SDSU campus (less than a mile from me) that had fruit on it almost year round and I’d be happy to send you one! I love these things and have spent way too much time hacking into their rock hard flesh to harvest the seeds. Glad to see I wasn’t mistakenly harvesting unripe fruit from a way-too-hard fruit for no reason. They’re always that tough, apparently!
YES! Send me a message over at: contortionjared@hotmail.com and we can work it out!
Weird Explorer Awesome! Will do!
Weird Explorer Email sent!
@@AlbinoAxolotl nice
@@AlbinoAxolotl can u send me some?
I remember sausage trees in Miami. I moved north haven’t seen one in 30 years
So cool that Smarter every day supports your channel, keep up the good work!
Thanks for the video. I was wondering about those.
Finally subscribed! Love your videos, thanks for sharing with us
Welcome!
Bonus tree at the end of the video is a Sterculia apetala, hats off to Trent Graham for the layman’s term!
Great video seen a few Sausage fruit trees in Fruit and Spice park! Thanks for sharing 🌱🌱🌱
I am from Jamaica and never seen this fruit
It's 3 o'clock in the morning and you just upload a video... That's the attitude
Pretty sure he's in eastern time zone. So yeah, 3am for him as well. 😄
Sausage fruit party? Elephants... 🤔😎 hmmm...
8 feet sausage
Sausage fruit...that's a new one! 😁 love your channel! 😊
Nice! I hope you can get one ready to eat soon!
That bird sounds so nice 💓
Go to Guyana south America..... we have some of the most delicious fruits there
Gebbran Raghbeer yes!
There is a sausage tree growing in Los Angeles, on UCLA campus. It's a pretty small tree, with branches curling around, not upwards or to the sides. The flowers are red and pretty large. They are pollinated by bats.
I confirm the bonus tree probably a sterculia species Jared...very interesting video...thanks for the info about the african sausage fruit i never knew the fruits could be processed/cooked to be edible... have 2 trees of it that i grew from seeds years ago but have never fruited yet.which i also doubt that i could have the right pollinators to fertilize their flowers, in my country
I’ve been fortunate to have been able to try a majority of all of these fruits without leaving my state. You should look up saraga in Indy everything in there is really rare and hard to come by. Love your show I’ve been a fan for 2 years because you were the only guy talking about these weird fruits I would see at saraga. Thank you for continuing to educate me. Also if you want more info on saraga keep me in touch
Harison Griffin which state?
@@jrpapi5 There is a Saraga in New Guinea.
Love the show long time veiwer
Wonder if those flowers on the second tree would make a good spice?
I was wondering the very same thing about the seed. They'd probably be awesome if you could dry them and grate them like nutmeg.
They probably taste amazing, but then exactly 37.228 minutes later, all the skin on your face leaps 3 feet to the left.
great, now i want gingerbread. 😬
BONUS 👏 FRUIT 👏
That fruit is used for so much more where I’m from 😂😂
Use for what? Tell me
I have seen one of these trees growing in stock island near key west few years back.
Oh wow thank you for this video blog , I just picked up some of the fruits . I’m tempted to make an alcohol from them and also roasting the seeds .
i love your videos man remember if you gonna roast the seeds do it on the the wm(warm) settin of your oven that about 170f depends on the oven
1:19 he was less than an inch away from doing some serious damage to himself xD
You know lots of fruits and interesting facts about them.
There is a beautiful old sausage tree on US 441 (Main Street) in Pahokee, FL.
These are sometimes grown as ornamental / oddball trees in Hawaii, but rarely. The hanging flower clusters are interesting-looking. The flowers are a dark purplish red; not showy or pretty.
Yeah, that was cool. 👍
2:22 is that article written by aliens? LOL
THANK YOU X
Hope you enjoy it!
You're an amazing cookie.
I do believe I had a class with this guy many years ago, back when he was just contemplating this channel
I saw these in my trip to South Africa.
I've seen this tree in my area ( St. Petersburg , Florida). I didn't know the fruit was edible. The flower of the tree is blood-red and very interesting looking.
That dude is amazing with the machete. He hits the same spot every time.
That bonus fruit, looks very similar to the sterculia monosperma in Asia. At least the fruits and foilage, the seeds are larger and quite edible after being cooked.
I was looking forward to you eating the fruit raw as world's first xD joking. Seriously you should try the wine or cooked version and tell us how it taste soon !
"Can you cook this for me" 😂
I'm Jamaican and I can guarantee you 100% that they would have cooked it just to see him eat that weird fruit lol
That tree with the peasant smell. I wonder if it could be used as a spice?
I live in India and in the place I stay at there are many sausage trees
I NEED a sausage fruit sausage!!! *Drool*
We have a huge tree at the park near my house with sausage fruit. Took forever to yank off the tree. We live in Jensen Beach, FL
Those machete skills though.. I would be missing a hand if that was me. 😬
Is the second tree Sterculia lanceolata? The seeds might be edible when cooked.
Think of all the great fruits you would miss out on if you let a poisonous fruit lure you to your death?
There still stands a massive sausage tree on the street I lived on when I was in elementary school. I remember once a friend of mine asked his father for a knife to open one up. It was probably a wise decision on his father's behalf to deny us a knife. We were only 7 years old, and would have cut ourselves up trying to get into the fruit.
It’s a Panama Tree known for being used for timber! Also the seeds are edible!
They sure are like a rock. I cut one open to get the seeds. Not the least bit appetising haha, seeds germinated easily though!
Hey someone else who knows the pain of getting sausage fruit seeds out of that rock hard fruit! It really is a nightmare. But you’re right, they do germinate easily which was a great surprise!
Definitely! I described as being like a block of wood.
Practical Primate Exactly! Like a fibrous block of wood. In fact I described the process of getting out the seeds as “whittling” and “carving.” What was your process of removing the seeds? I’ve tried a couple of ways and the most successful was slowly carving off slices around the outside rind until I got to the core, since that’s where I found most of the seeds. It was also easier to slice across the fibers and not through them. Also if I sliced horizontally (across the short axis) through the flesh I ended up damaging more seeds than the other way.
Also I made sure to wear gloves after the first time because that shit oxidizes and STAINS! Lol.
Jen Thompson that would work! I cut them cross sectionally into ‘rounds’ and then picked the seeds out with the tip of a knife or the saw. I cut through a lot doing that but got enough for my experiments :)
Bonus fruit is a peanut tree aka red fruited kurrajong...........Sterculia Quadrifida........ grows in rainforests native to Queensland and NSW and NT Australia....... seeds are edible roasted.. we call it bush tucker food.... I live in Victoria and have one scared now considering how big the tree grows...good too know how good the flowers smell thanks as mine only 5 years old so not bearing yet... seeds meant to taste like peanuts
Welcome to Jamaica!
"Leeets sausageeee"
The sausage tree grows down the street from my Mom’s house... I thought it was a pod people tree😅
Ordinary sausage: sausage fruit sausage
The seeds of all sterculias are edible and have a pleasant taste similar to cocoa. You can eat them like nuts, either raw or roasted. Note: Avoid eating large quantities.
In some regions, seeds are consumed after being boiled or roasted, used to flavor chocolate, or given to animals as fodder.[9] The flowers are used as antitussive
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterculia_apetala
Interesting , make sure to try Detarium senegalense/ Ditax fruit from Senegal and Gambia
There is a sausage fruit tree at the San Diego Zoo. I took one as a child and got a seed to sprout. But then I killed it.
I love that the locals always have GIANT knives. It’s so cool lol
I think everyone in the rural, humid tropics or subtopics uses machetes. They are how you cut your way out of thickets.
Where in jamaica do you find this tree?
I wonder, if you cut it up, cooked it, then put it through a food mill to get rid of the fibers and seeds, could you use it to make pies? Also, would the pie be worth it when it requires heavy industrial machinery (or a highly skilled Jamaican with a machete) to cut the rind off? This might be worth looking into if you can confirm that it's safe to eat after cooking.
in africa they eat literal trees which require excessive processing to extract the starch from the fibers. Worth it depends on how hungry you are I guess.
What is that fruit dough?
Sausage fruit looks very like what I've seen called a makoro fruit/tree. If so, elephants eat them when they have fermented on the tree (not rock hard) to get drunk! They tap them with their trunks to see which one is fermented enough.
I've heard that before and actually mentioned it when I filmed this. But when editing, I couldn't find any sources online confirming it, so I cut that part out of the video. I'm glad I'm not crazy!
Other than having seen them eat them, I can't offer any good proof. I think it's a cool symbiotic relationship- the tree gets its seeds scattered by a wandering giant, and the elephant gets to be the only other animal that takes alcohol recreationally
That tree in the end is a Sterculia chicha and is a bit common here in Brazil (when are you coming here?). The black seeds are edible and they say it has a nutty flavor, similar to pistachios.
Thanks! Do you need to cook the nuts first?
Brazil is on my list of possible places for next winter. :)
@@WeirdExplorer It's usually roasted. Let us know when you get here, perhaps there could be a meet up.
You should try the Panama Berry
What part of Jamaica is that I didn’t know that fruit was there
It's a French peanut tree, we had one at the high school I attended.
One day you will mistakenly eat a devil fruit and wont be able to swim again
Facts lmao
Would be interesting to make fries out of the sausage fruit and grind the unknown fruit to use as cinnamon
That husk fruit reminds me of hazel nuts theyre covered in fine hairy needles that stick in your fingers and make you itch if you pick them without wearing gloves.
Oh really? I have yet to see a hazelnut tree in person.
@@WeirdExplorer They grow on bushes- here in germany they're everywhere. Very hardy plants that spread out quite a lot if you leave them.
Is every weird fruit in Jamaica used to make alcohol?
Every fruit in the world is used to make alcohol.
Any excuse to drink
Hippos love sausage fruit I've been curious on how they look on the inside
1:18, Are we not gonna talk about how that guy almost took off his whole hand!!
The sausage fruit that I am accustomed to is generally short and soft unfortunately
Can you upload how to drink eat the sausage tree? Plss
This is hippopotami’s favorite thing to eat.
That bonus fruit resembles a bit our brasilian fruit called Xixá...
So that's where vegetarian sausage comes from!