Can't get enough gymnosperm? Wow that sounds wrong. Well check this video out that I made on the very tasty Melinjo seed: th-cam.com/video/imA3HwoMQ18/w-d-xo.html
Weird Explorer can you find out all the different peanuts because last time i went to a Mexican store and got these smaller than normal peanuts i get from other stores and tasted way better more delicious
We have this here in Brasil (south) but we call it PINHÃO. I just love it. The most common way to prepare is boiled but can be also roasted. The trick is to cut it in half with scissors before cooking in water, once it is ready, the nut just slide off easily. You can also cut the tip off, it is easier to prepare (need less effort) and boil, but then you need to peel it off, with knife or an extractor made for this or like me just squeeze the round tip between your teeth and it just pop out. I also eated pinhão as soup. It is said that in the early season you should not pick up because animals feed on those. You would be amazed by how it is clustered together before it hit the ground. It is like a cluster bomb.
These seeds are called pinhão, it is normally eaten toasted or cooked, we see those threes everywhere here in south of Brazil, you can even see them in the cities.
oh yeah, the tree actually is a symbol for the State of Paraná in Brazil. before colonization it was one big forest/biome the is sadly gone now. When you cross the borders of Sao Paulo to Paraná is one of those things the you immediately starts to see on the road. Such an amazing tree
Araucaria is an awesome tree. It's very common here in the southern states of Brazil. Particularly here in the Parana State. My city name "Curitiba" comes from the Tupi words kurí tyba, "many pine seeds" due to the large number araucaria trees. We usually eat the seeds boiled with salt or roasted over the fire. It's also used on beef/porc stew known as "entrevero". Cakes and bread are also made with a flour made with the nuts.
One of my favorites . The newly discovered Maps of Antarctica actually show enormous trees, and they are Arucaria - specifically the Monkey puzzle tree ( Arucana ). That makes perfect sense as they are currently endemic to Chile (close by). Antarctica may end up being the Native habitat.
@@WeirdExplorer I have seen 3 channels show the newest of the Stanford (I think) library maps that had been unseen before. 1 Florida Maqui 2 Static in the attic 3 Jennifer veteran's for truth. People and animals are also visible.
These trees are called "pehuén" in mapudungun, the language of Mapuche people (whom the Spanish called Araucanos - Araucaria araucana), and the peoples who live where these trees grow traditionally have the seeds (piñones) as the basis of their nourishment. They call themselves "Pehuenches", the people of the pehuén. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pehuenche
I have always been fascinated by "living fossil" plants but this is one I haven't heard of before! Thanks for the interesting review (and the kitty content as always).
I'm so glad I could share these with you! It's awesome that I found a female right next to a male to make the nuts. They've been planted all over here, though most often alone.
There are a ton of them where I live but I’m never sure how to approach homeowners and say, “Hey, can I have a seed pod and are the trees treated with any chemicals?” Fun fact : I watched a French documentary about the Araucaria Araucana. It has English subtitles, and several Spanish speakers are interviewed. Only thing is, they repeatedly reference piñones for the seeds. The translator translated this to “pigeons” because the French word did pigeons sounds similar to piñones? It’s pretty ridiculous to watch a Mapuche woman turning piñones into meal and reading, “Pigeons are delicious.” The video is just called Araucaria Araucana and is on Vimeo. 👍🏻
I remember eating these mashed with Merken and other roasted vegetables. So good. In mapudugun they are called Ngűlliw and Piñón in spanish. Fun to hear the tree exists in other countries.
I've had this roasted. It is absolutely delicious and buttery tasting. The Philipinos eat this as a snack and we had this at work for a birthday celebration. Unfortunately nobody could tell me what the Latin or English name for it was. I have seen a mature tree growing in Hillsborough, OR. It was at least 50 ft. tall and spectacular. The tree is native to Chilean mountains and is hardy in Zones 7 - 10. You need a male and female to produce fruit. My Philipino friends said that trees like this had short fences around them because one of the cones falling on a person could kill them.
i so love araucaria, i think its value is being underestimated, its history is amazing, its forests are beautiful, it s just been down graded to an ornamental tree in the front yards in the 70ies, and since the fashion is gone, well so do the auracarias ... chopped just as if it were nothing!
These are superb when made in a pressure cooker; they have a meaty steak/chicken breast flavor. We call them piñónes and the trees pehuen, and are popular sigils all across Patagonia and the Southern Andes. They're often on the crests of establishments like banks and seen on flags.
Another interesting thing is that even though they are from South America, because they grow high up in the Andes, they are pretty cold tolerant. They can withstand 0°F/-18°C. I'm sure there are some specimen somewhere in New York :)
@@WeirdExplorer Relatively commonly planted in the UK, many huge specimens from Victorian times. You will have to check out the bunya pine in Australia, _Araucaria bidwillii._
They may not quite grow in NY. They would be very marginal there for cold hardiness. Easy in USDA zones 8a and above. You'll see them all over the Pacific Northwest, which has an identical climate to Southern Chile.
@@matthedlund1089 They are hardy to zone 7. I live in Austria in zone 7 and know several established trees. Those are old enough to have experienced these temperatures in harsh winters, so I can confirm it. I know that you have to keep them in a pot until they have reached a certain size before you plant them outside here, then they are fine. Edit: Maybe I should clarify that I meant New York City, not the state. Also, I found one in New York City through googling: maps.app.goo.gl/MrUwgDrrtCqrTdvQ8
I already ate it in Brazil but normally people toast it. It's the best way to eat it properly. There's a festival for this seed in South of Brazil in Santa Catarina State, people eat a lot of this seed
Monkey Puzzles, in south Brazil are called by "Pinhão" (Pee-nyao) and we always eat this cooked in pressure or roasted, it's an iguary of Rio Grande de Sul and Paraná in Brazil. Is very cool see an brazilian thing in an extranger chanel!
Have you tried the seed from Australia's Bunya tree? From the same Genus, but much much larger seeds and cones (10kg!). The food was revered by the aboriginies, and they would travel from up to 500km away to the Bunya mountains to feast on the harvest every few years. They're quite sweet and can boiled or roasted.
It takes twenty years for them to reproduce and then you have to have two of them because they are sexed. But there is a lot of research going on them, recently it was developed (through cloning) a variety that starts producing at age six years and doesn't grow higher than two meters. Amazing stuff
Coolest trees I’ve ever seen, there are a bunch in Portland, OR. I don’t know if they grow all over the state or if they were just ornamentntal. You really feel like you’re looking back in time when you look at them, very bizarre.
I remember how to sing a few of these from what was my local park almost 10 years ago in London... I felt that it was similarly as sweet as a pinenuts and like you said, fatty in consistency with more of a crunchiness which I believe is due to the high starch content and size of the seed in comparison to a pinenut, all I know I found it to be very delicious and wonder why it’s not in cultivation across northern latitudes where it can yield quite a lot of crap after quite a lot of years!
In Uruguay and Argentina we have araucarias but also introduced Australian araucarias: bunya bunya . They taste like waxy potatoes. Do you want some? Im sure you can get them from California or Texas. IT s an ornamental tree. In Australia is a bushfood.
Those seeds boiled with a bit of salt is a traditional dish of southern Brazil, and here we call it Pinhão. You should've boiled them for a bit longer, the taste develops more the longer you cook them. There are tools specifically made to remove their skin, but you can also do it by biting the round end, the seed will pop out of the skin very easily.
Looks like a smaller version of a Bunya Nut "Araucaria bidwillii". Bunya's are fairly rare here in Australia, mostly due to taking 12 to 20 years to produce cones. But they are huge compared to pine nut or even monkey puzzle cones. A single nut (cleaned) would more then likely weight more then all the monkey puzzle cones shown in the entire vid. To me they have a light pine nut flavour mixed with chestnut.
@@WeirdExplorer As with the monkey puzzle, normally cooked to help remove husk. Much thicker & I would assume stronger then monkey puzzle. Can be eaten raw, just need equipment to get at it. Seen it done with hacksaw & multi grips. The first Australians used axes to get at the nuts & ground them to make flour. Or just put them onto the coals of a fire to split the husk & roast the nut, much easier. Was a staple for them in the Brisbane - Gold Coast area. They could be stored & eaten months, some times even years later if not de-husked.
Love to see the endemic fruits and plants from my country through the eyes of a foering, and realize that they are weird, because we grow with them and see them like something common, not like the tropical fruits that you always try.
If you wanted to peel them easier, you probably should have immediately threw them into ice water after boiling. This is what you do to other nuts, tomatoes and etc. Makes the skin slip off. Thank you for this video, these trees are really rad, but unfortunately this tree and some of its relatives are either threatened or outright endangered. It would be really cool to see conservation efforts. Though I'm sure it's the same case as gingko biloba, endangered in its native range but used widely as landscaping.
I can add that ten minutes is much too little of a boil to cook them lol It usually takes around 90 minutes or more to cook them. And salt. Then they are perfect
This is only the second time I have ever heard of a Monkey Puzzle Tree but the first time I ever learned what it was. The very first time I heard of this tree was in a Rex Harrison movie called the Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
Seems like the tree has a lot of potential at least. Since it seems cold tolerant and hoping it produces about as much seeds as a pine would but larger of course it could certainly be a pretty good crop to have even if it takes maybe a bit more work.
2 species of Araucaria are native (I hesitate to say endemic ad I not sure 😁) to Australia. A. bidwillii (Bunya Pine) also has (apparently delicious!) edible seeds. A. cunninghamii aka Hoop Pine not sure if the seeds are edible. And A. heterophylla is the infamous Norfolk island pine
Monkey Puzzle trees are semi-common in England and Scotland as decorative garden trees, I didn't know they had an edible nut though! I'll have to try and collect some. Interesting trees for sure, they seem to grow pretty well.
There was a monkey puzzle tree in my school, but we avoided it since we thought it was dangerous. I remember seeing a hummingbird nest in it. Also, Vostok is adorable. And if I may ask, what happened on your finger? I spotted a small injury
Ginko "fruits" are technically gymnosperms. It's a non flowering plant most closely related to cycads and the "fruit" is a fleshy seed coat. It's sort of convergent evolution, it's a fruitlike thing that evolved independently from the fruits of flowering plants.
just fyi, most Romano and all Parmesan contains rennet in it which is animal derived AKA not vegetarian friendly. I know you've mentioned in some videos that your vegetarian but I wasnt sure if your strictly vegiterain. Just FYI. Great video by the way.
Hats off for your understanding of taxonomy and the hierarchy of classifications, Jared! - From Jared… because we are both… Jareds. Jareds (plural) looks weird, but is accurate. LOL
I hope you can access the seeds of the Australian Bunya nut tree Araucaria bidwillii. Traditional food of the Australian aboriginal people. Cones the size of footballs. Seeds like large Brazil nuts.
try plane tree fruit. Plane trees are pretty old too. I'm going into paleobotany and I'm also writing a book. This is cool I never knew you could eat the nuts
I love your videos. The pine nuts that we have here in Israel have a hard outer shell and only after you crack the outer shell (quite time consuming) you reach the thin film that you showed. Are you sure that the pine nuts in the USA don't have a hard outer shell?
It IS vegan, that's why he said that vegans can leave it just like that, or add nutritional yeast. Because he himself is not vegan he is adding cheese instead.
This video changed something in me. Shit is gonna hit the fan if I ever spot a cone in a tree in somebody's yard. You're gonna see me, social anxiety disorder notwithstanding, knock on a stranger's door to ask if I can use my pole shears to cut one down
I think they're called the throne factory. Super cheap for what it is, but the quality isn't great. It's starting to sag a bit when you sit on it and i've only had it for just over a year now.
please try monkey fruit when you are in India. Its sweet and has a nice tart and creamy texture. But you have to be careful to not eat raw. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artocarpus_lacucha Also in Spain or West africa try Tiger nuts.
Hello Vostok! Oh and cool plant Jared. I assume you'll want to know this since you like learning things (but correct me if I'm wrong), living fossil is kind of a debatable term. Typically it's attributed to creatures like the coelacanth, which although it looks very similar to its ancient counterparts, is very genetically different! Scientists are mostly the ones having this debate, but they're hoping to put an actual definition to the word and maybe expand it to the term Endangered Living Fossil, to classify species that are from ancient lineages and bring awareness to their conservation
Can't get enough gymnosperm? Wow that sounds wrong.
Well check this video out that I made on the very tasty Melinjo seed: th-cam.com/video/imA3HwoMQ18/w-d-xo.html
Bet if you dark roast some and grind it would make a fair coffee substitute. ☕
What kind of pine nut were you using for comparison? Here in New Mexico piñon nuts are very popular but look quite different from what you had.
@@Criblo456 They might be stone pine nuts (Pinus pinea) form the Mediterranean, that's the most commonly available pine nuts for most of the U.S.
Weird Explorer can you find out all the different peanuts because last time i went to a Mexican store and got these smaller than normal peanuts i get from other stores and tasted way better more delicious
@@JuanGomez-mv1qx peanuts? You mean pine nuts?
We have this here in Brasil (south) but we call it PINHÃO. I just love it. The most common way to prepare is boiled but can be also roasted. The trick is to cut it in half with scissors before cooking in water, once it is ready, the nut just slide off easily. You can also cut the tip off, it is easier to prepare (need less effort) and boil, but then you need to peel it off, with knife or an extractor made for this or like me just squeeze the round tip between your teeth and it just pop out.
I also eated pinhão as soup.
It is said that in the early season you should not pick up because animals feed on those.
You would be amazed by how it is clustered together before it hit the ground. It is like a cluster bomb.
That's a different species, these are Chilean pine nuts. Though they're likely very similar anyways.
@@ornokur6315 they taste the same tho
@@CarlosFernandesS I guessed that must be the case.
Mano nunca acreditei que ia achar um sulista que falou a mesma coisa que eu num canal gringo kkkkkkkkk
@@brunoperoni3210 idem
Petition for Jared to get a potato scale:
Soon we will be able to count to potato.
Yes 😂
I must be more potato than potato itselg
Obviously you need to be able to count to potato to use a potato scale.
5:34 "On a scale from 1 to Potato..."
when can we have the potato scale
These seeds are called pinhão, it is normally eaten toasted or cooked, we see those threes everywhere here in south of Brazil, you can even see them in the cities.
That is a very closely related species, Araucaria angustifolia. The Monkey Puzzle Tree is Araucaria araucana native to Southern Chile.
@@matthedlund1089 yeah, they are really similar to each other. There are another similar species in Australia.
oh yeah, the tree actually is a symbol for the State of Paraná in Brazil. before colonization it was one big forest/biome the is sadly gone now. When you cross the borders of Sao Paulo to Paraná is one of those things the you immediately starts to see on the road. Such an amazing tree
Araucaria is an awesome tree. It's very common here in the southern states of Brazil. Particularly here in the Parana State. My city name "Curitiba" comes from the Tupi words kurí tyba, "many pine seeds" due to the large number araucaria trees. We usually eat the seeds boiled with salt or roasted over the fire. It's also used on beef/porc stew known as "entrevero". Cakes and bread are also made with a flour made with the nuts.
Cool! I have some of these nuts left over, maby I'll make some of bread from them.
One of my favorites .
The newly discovered Maps of Antarctica actually show enormous trees, and they are Arucaria - specifically the Monkey puzzle tree ( Arucana ).
That makes perfect sense as they are currently endemic to Chile (close by).
Antarctica may end up being the Native habitat.
interesting!
@@WeirdExplorer I have seen 3 channels show the newest of the Stanford (I think) library maps that had been unseen before.
1 Florida Maqui
2 Static in the attic
3 Jennifer veteran's for truth.
People and animals are also visible.
Seeing you cook for a change is amazing, love seeing the applications of your super sense of taste and smell
These trees are called "pehuén" in mapudungun, the language of Mapuche people (whom the Spanish called Araucanos - Araucaria araucana), and the peoples who live where these trees grow traditionally have the seeds (piñones) as the basis of their nourishment. They call themselves "Pehuenches", the people of the pehuén.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pehuenche
I love hearing how to make this recipe and that you include the vegan option!
I have always been fascinated by "living fossil" plants but this is one I haven't heard of before! Thanks for the interesting review (and the kitty content as always).
I'm so glad I could share these with you! It's awesome that I found a female right next to a male to make the nuts. They've been planted all over here, though most often alone.
Thanks Ray!
There are a ton of them where I live but I’m never sure how to approach homeowners and say, “Hey, can I have a seed pod and are the trees treated with any chemicals?”
Fun fact : I watched a French documentary about the Araucaria Araucana. It has English subtitles, and several Spanish speakers are interviewed. Only thing is, they repeatedly reference piñones for the seeds. The translator translated this to “pigeons” because the French word did pigeons sounds similar to piñones? It’s pretty ridiculous to watch a Mapuche woman turning piñones into meal and reading, “Pigeons are delicious.” The video is just called Araucaria Araucana and is on Vimeo. 👍🏻
@ralnyxHi there. Do I know you by chance?
In Chile we boil them until they start to peel off by themselves a little bit. Its definitely easier peel them in that point while they still hot
I remember eating these mashed with Merken and other roasted vegetables. So good. In mapudugun they are called Ngűlliw and Piñón in spanish. Fun to hear the tree exists in other countries.
Y porq en el cole me dijeron que se llamaba pehuen? D: o tambien se le puede decir asi?
Awesome how you explained this gymnosperm
i saw these all over Chile- they said to eat them like potatoes. Maybe with butter and salt?
It's very very different from potatoes, it's tastes like pine and hazelnuts, when cooked.
@@brunoperoni3210 prepared like a potato
I don't know about butter, we don't really do that "here" at least (south of Brazil) but with salt yes, makes it way tastier
Dude I just keep finding stuff that I'm super interested in that you've already tried. You're a hero!
You need an astringency scale, a potato scale, an herbal scale, and so forth
I've had this roasted. It is absolutely delicious and buttery tasting. The Philipinos eat this as a snack and we had this at work for a birthday celebration. Unfortunately nobody could tell me what the Latin or English name for it was. I have seen a mature tree growing in Hillsborough, OR. It was at least 50 ft. tall and spectacular. The tree is native to Chilean mountains and is hardy in Zones 7 - 10. You need a male and female to produce fruit. My Philipino friends said that trees like this had short fences around them because one of the cones falling on a person could kill them.
i so love araucaria, i think its value is being underestimated, its history is amazing, its forests are beautiful, it s just been down graded to an ornamental tree in the front yards in the 70ies, and since the fashion is gone, well so do the auracarias ... chopped just as if it were nothing!
This is actually related to the bunya pine. The bunya is delicious
Yes it is delicious! I came down to commend the same. I thought Bunya Bunya nuts tasted super similar to pine nuts when raw, just giant!
I'd like to try some bunya pine nuts my self. Infact there's a tone of fruits from Australia I'd like to visit for and try.
These are superb when made in a pressure cooker; they have a meaty steak/chicken breast flavor. We call them piñónes and the trees pehuen, and are popular sigils all across Patagonia and the Southern Andes. They're often on the crests of establishments like banks and seen on flags.
Another interesting thing is that even though they are from South America, because they grow high up in the Andes, they are pretty cold tolerant. They can withstand 0°F/-18°C. I'm sure there are some specimen somewhere in New York :)
Hmm.. i'll have to keep my eyes open next time i'm in central park :)
There are a couple of them growing in my area in San Diego
@@WeirdExplorer Relatively commonly planted in the UK, many huge specimens from Victorian times.
You will have to check out the bunya pine in Australia, _Araucaria bidwillii._
They may not quite grow in NY. They would be very marginal there for cold hardiness. Easy in USDA zones 8a and above. You'll see them all over the Pacific Northwest, which has an identical climate to Southern Chile.
@@matthedlund1089 They are hardy to zone 7. I live in Austria in zone 7 and know several established trees. Those are old enough to have experienced these temperatures in harsh winters, so I can confirm it.
I know that you have to keep them in a pot until they have reached a certain size before you plant them outside here, then they are fine.
Edit: Maybe I should clarify that I meant New York City, not the state. Also, I found one in New York City through googling:
maps.app.goo.gl/MrUwgDrrtCqrTdvQ8
What a beautiful tree! Thanks for sharing.
I already ate it in Brazil but normally people toast it. It's the best way to eat it properly. There's a festival for this seed in South of Brazil in Santa Catarina State, people eat a lot of this seed
That is some intense Prehistoric Pesto there
Every time I see a video like this, I am like “I want to grow that tree where I live!” So far i have grown 2 small sequoias.
Cool...I remember seeing the monkey puzzle trees in Patagonia
They are gorgeous trees. I want one sooooo bad.
If you can source the nuts (easy in the UK) they germinate and grow very easily...but beware...they grow to be VERY BIG!
My mom said the kids in her hood used to fight with the branches. And also I'll now think of gymnasium as a naked exercise place-thanks for that
That's what they were. In Ancient Greece everyone exercised naked in the Gymnasium, and in the original Olympic games.
@@MsCherade9 well it's not Greece here. Too cold for that silliness. 😃
Wow!!! awesome. Great recipe. Thank You WeirdExplorer. 🙏
Hope you enjoy.
Your cat is just precious
Monkey Puzzles, in south Brazil are called by "Pinhão" (Pee-nyao) and we always eat this cooked in pressure or roasted, it's an iguary of Rio Grande de Sul and Paraná in Brazil. Is very cool see an brazilian thing in an extranger chanel!
Have you tried the seed from Australia's Bunya tree? From the same Genus, but much much larger seeds and cones (10kg!). The food was revered by the aboriginies, and they would travel from up to 500km away to the Bunya mountains to feast on the harvest every few years. They're quite sweet and can boiled or roasted.
Unfortunately they have a long juvenile period, which makes them a pain to try to cultivate from seed.
It takes twenty years for them to reproduce and then you have to have two of them because they are sexed. But there is a lot of research going on them, recently it was developed (through cloning) a variety that starts producing at age six years and doesn't grow higher than two meters. Amazing stuff
I saw these trees in several areas of Scotland. They are very unique.
Coolest trees I’ve ever seen, there are a bunch in Portland, OR. I don’t know if they grow all over the state or if they were just ornamentntal. You really feel like you’re looking back in time when you look at them, very bizarre.
Considering that the nut is so fatty, it would probably be a good oil.
Cool, I have a monkey puzzle tree in my front yard. I finally noticed this year all the seeds dropping from it.
I was waiting for you to challenge everyone to make the exact same pesto lol.
That'd be pretty hard. Even the seeds for BBG7xTabasco are far from widely available and then you'd have to spend most of a year growing the plants.
I remember how to sing a few of these from what was my local park almost 10 years ago in London... I felt that it was similarly as sweet as a pinenuts and like you said, fatty in consistency with more of a crunchiness which I believe is due to the high starch content and size of the seed in comparison to a pinenut, all I know I found it to be very delicious and wonder why it’s not in cultivation across northern latitudes where it can yield quite a lot of crap after quite a lot of years!
In Uruguay and Argentina we have araucarias but also introduced Australian araucarias: bunya bunya . They taste like waxy potatoes. Do you want some? Im sure you can get them from California or Texas. IT s an ornamental tree. In Australia is a bushfood.
Those seeds boiled with a bit of salt is a traditional dish of southern Brazil, and here we call it Pinhão. You should've boiled them for a bit longer, the taste develops more the longer you cook them. There are tools specifically made to remove their skin, but you can also do it by biting the round end, the seed will pop out of the skin very easily.
Looks like a smaller version of a Bunya Nut "Araucaria bidwillii". Bunya's are fairly rare here in Australia, mostly due to taking 12 to 20 years to produce cones. But they are huge compared to pine nut or even monkey puzzle cones. A single nut (cleaned) would more then likely weight more then all the monkey puzzle cones shown in the entire vid. To me they have a light pine nut flavour mixed with chestnut.
I'm looking forward to trying this. Is it eaten raw too?
@@WeirdExplorer As with the monkey puzzle, normally cooked to help remove husk. Much thicker & I would assume stronger then monkey puzzle. Can be eaten raw, just need equipment to get at it. Seen it done with hacksaw & multi grips. The first Australians used axes to get at the nuts & ground them to make flour. Or just put them onto the coals of a fire to split the husk & roast the nut, much easier. Was a staple for them in the Brisbane - Gold Coast area. They could be stored & eaten months, some times even years later if not de-husked.
Де можна дістати,або де продається насіння araucaria bidwillii у вашій країні?
Omg I want to grow that gorgeous tree..
It would probably still be a baby by the time you died of old age but it'd be one hell of a legacy!
Love to see the endemic fruits and plants from my country through the eyes of a foering, and realize that they are weird, because we grow with them and see them like something common, not like the tropical fruits that you always try.
I think this tree is related to the bunya nut those taste amazing!
If you wanted to peel them easier, you probably should have immediately threw them into ice water after boiling.
This is what you do to other nuts, tomatoes and etc. Makes the skin slip off.
Thank you for this video, these trees are really rad, but unfortunately this tree and some of its relatives are either threatened or outright endangered. It would be really cool to see conservation efforts.
Though I'm sure it's the same case as gingko biloba, endangered in its native range but used widely as landscaping.
I can add that ten minutes is much too little of a boil to cook them lol
It usually takes around 90 minutes or more to cook them. And salt. Then they are perfect
This is only the second time I have ever heard of a Monkey Puzzle Tree but the first time I ever learned what it was. The very first time I heard of this tree was in a Rex Harrison movie called the Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
We have these trees all over here.... well in people's yards. I live in Germany.
Oh…. You just reminded me that I need to harvest my potatoes today!
Seems like the tree has a lot of potential at least. Since it seems cold tolerant and hoping it produces about as much seeds as a pine would but larger of course it could certainly be a pretty good crop to have even if it takes maybe a bit more work.
A potted araucaria plays a significant thematic role in Hermann Hesse's novel Steppenwolf.
Roasted monkey puzzle seeds are excellent, and roasting makes the casing come off easily.
It's Ara-care-E-ah or Air-roo-care-ree-are. Check out the Bunya nuts next time in Australia. They're yummy when boiled/roasted.
2 species of Araucaria are native (I hesitate to say endemic ad I not sure 😁) to Australia. A. bidwillii (Bunya Pine) also has (apparently delicious!) edible seeds. A. cunninghamii aka Hoop Pine not sure if the seeds are edible. And A. heterophylla is the infamous Norfolk island pine
I hopefully will find the bunya pine when I get to australia this winter, its such a cool looking cone
Monkey Puzzle trees are semi-common in England and Scotland as decorative garden trees, I didn't know they had an edible nut though! I'll have to try and collect some.
Interesting trees for sure, they seem to grow pretty well.
There was a monkey puzzle tree in my school, but we avoided it since we thought it was dangerous. I remember seeing a hummingbird nest in it. Also, Vostok is adorable. And if I may ask, what happened on your finger? I spotted a small injury
"I don't have a potato scale" .....
You do now!
Keep up the great content 😀
I am a French horn player (not a very good one, it's just a hobby) and I love your new opening theme!
Ginko "fruits" are technically gymnosperms. It's a non flowering plant most closely related to cycads and the "fruit" is a fleshy seed coat. It's sort of convergent evolution, it's a fruitlike thing that evolved independently from the fruits of flowering plants.
Yass my man basil pesto is the best!
my aunt on vancouver has one of these in her garden! I dont imagine it'll ever produce seed though.
It probably won't, she needs a male and a female tree for that, and only the female trees produce seeds.
Yeah Valter's right. I found the female tree that produced the nuts right next to another male tree.
@@valterzc8187 I have a single tree that was producing seeds this year, no clue where the male is.
Monkey Puzzle Pesto sounds like a spiritual successor to Super Monkey Ball
just fyi, most Romano and all Parmesan contains rennet in it which is animal derived AKA not vegetarian friendly. I know you've mentioned in some videos that your vegetarian but I wasnt sure if your strictly vegiterain. Just FYI. Great video by the way.
Hats off for your understanding of taxonomy and the hierarchy of classifications, Jared! - From Jared… because we are both… Jareds. Jareds (plural) looks weird, but is accurate. LOL
I love your cooking videos 😊
I hope you can access the seeds of the Australian Bunya nut tree Araucaria bidwillii. Traditional food of the Australian aboriginal people. Cones the size of footballs. Seeds like large Brazil nuts.
3:00 Sore or fruit juice stain?
The potato scale has just been introduced into the Weird Explorer cinematic universe!
I was hoping for bunya-bunya seeds. Maybe you’ve done those already? I keep losing track - should subscribe.
try plane tree fruit. Plane trees are pretty old too. I'm going into paleobotany and I'm also writing a book. This is cool I never knew you could eat the nuts
I'll check it out!
Please van you tell me if there is a différence between araucana and bidwillii.
Thank you
Romano is the more traditional cheese to put in a basil pesto... but the MOST traditional thing is to use whatever you got!
How would the taste and texture of the monkey puzzle seeds compare to jicama?
I love your videos.
The pine nuts that we have here in Israel have a hard outer shell and only after you crack the outer shell (quite time consuming) you reach the thin film that you showed. Are you sure that the pine nuts in the USA don't have a hard outer shell?
The ones I have seen have a dark brown outer shell.
OMFG THESE ARE PIÑONES!!!!! THEY ARE SO GOOD FFS
The monke puzzle tree can grow up to 30 to 50 meters one of my used to be neighbors had one that was 31 m
If it has that tough of an outer shell and has that much starch you could make popcorn out of it probably lol
tennis ball sized popcorn kernels.. that would be killer
why is nutritional yeast seasoning not vegan?
it comes from fungi(yeast), right?
It IS vegan, that's why he said that vegans can leave it just like that, or add nutritional yeast. Because he himself is not vegan he is adding cheese instead.
i have 2 Araucaria araucana in my tree collection
This video changed something in me. Shit is gonna hit the fan if I ever spot a cone in a tree in somebody's yard. You're gonna see me, social anxiety disorder notwithstanding, knock on a stranger's door to ask if I can use my pole shears to cut one down
Your so lucky, I wish I could get some monkey puzzle seeds, I would love to grow some of those.
The first 20 seconds is a spell!
did you ever try roasting the seeds? any good? better? worse?
I can say that I love it ...
Monkey puzzel seeds are amazing, but that divan couch is amazing too. Where you get that?
I think they're called the throne factory. Super cheap for what it is, but the quality isn't great. It's starting to sag a bit when you sit on it and i've only had it for just over a year now.
Thanks. Going to check'em out.
I call these "pinhão", It's very good when you cook it with water and salt
I love your videos, especially when you murder the Latin names 😉😂
please try monkey fruit when you are in India. Its sweet and has a nice tart and creamy texture. But you have to be careful to not eat raw. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artocarpus_lacucha
Also in Spain or West africa try Tiger nuts.
Hello Vostok! Oh and cool plant Jared. I assume you'll want to know this since you like learning things (but correct me if I'm wrong), living fossil is kind of a debatable term. Typically it's attributed to creatures like the coelacanth, which although it looks very similar to its ancient counterparts, is very genetically different! Scientists are mostly the ones having this debate, but they're hoping to put an actual definition to the word and maybe expand it to the term Endangered Living Fossil, to classify species that are from ancient lineages and bring awareness to their conservation
Fascinating channel.
Awesome another aldente sweet potato nibble alternative. Lol
i got an ad for BIBLES before your vid, ayyye
Really? haha
10:45 "I am not a vegan so..." haha. Great.
So fascinating
Pine nuts r expensive AF! But sooooo tasty but now i wanna try a monkey puzzle
what are the bulbus bits on the tree??? are they edible somehow???
Nope, they’re incredibly spiny and resinous
I'm trying to purchase some of these seeds but having a difficult time finding them. Any clues?