PARTRIDGE BERRIES - Trying 3 Different Fruits With The Same Name - Weird Fruit Explorer

[@WeirdExplorer]

Which partridgeberry would you choose?

[@AimeeColeman]

Lingonberries! They're delicious :D

[@hiromikami]

The last one might be sweetened to enhance the flavor so you can know if any hidden flavor lurks within.

[@cheesed-kun8445]

By description alone lingonberries

[@BillCoz]

Is it "patridge" or "partridge"?

[@Erewhon2024]

@@BillCoz The latter. It refers to birds like chukar (in the U.S., probably actually grouse though possibly bobwhite quail) similar to a larger quail, probably because a bird of that sort was seen eating the berries.

[@abilgri]

It has two calyx sets because it has two flowers that develop into a single fruit. I always liken the berries to bunchberries (Cornus canadensis) in that both are devoid of taste

[@AtomicShrimp]

I was going to say you missed one - Leycesteria formosa, which I had remembered as Partridge Berry for some reason, but when I looked it up, it's Pheasant Berry

[@pattheplanter]

_Mitchella repens_ is also sometimes called the pheasant berry. Jared has had the _Leycesteria_ so he has covered all the small gamebird berries unless there is a quail berry.

[@W9e0e2e3e4pizza]

I now understand why I was suggested Jareds channel a few months ago... Love yer stuff shirmp.

[@WeirdExplorer]

let's not forget turkey berry. maybe I should make a playlist

[@stanervin6108]

@@pattheplanter I've seen Cardinals feasting on red berries from Dogwood. They won't eat them off the tree, but wait until they fall to the ground and get a bit mushy.

[@fruitoftheanus]

There’s also partridge pea, in the bean family. not edible, to my knowledge.

[@bigbadbovine]

Now that you have eaten all three partridge berries you now can transform into the FULLRIDGE.

[@TheEpicWerdo]

XP

[@-jank-willson]

dad joke alert

[@hannakinn]

I had completely forgotten about buying and chewing Clark's Teaberry Gum back in the 1960s when I was a child. I loved to ride my bike to the local drugstore and spend my allowance/chores money on candy and gum. I liked the Teaberry Gum because it still had flavor long after the sweetness was gone AND my sister and friends didn't like it so no one was ever asking me to give them any, lol.

[@anne-droid7739]

I loved Teaberry Gum. Blackjack, too. And Beemans. =) And the bike ride, uphill in both directions, of course!

[@JTMusicbox]

Partridge berry completionists are cool in my book.

[@let_uslunch8884]

Completionists 😂😂😂😂😂

[@thexbigxgreen]

2:42 "Two openings... What does it mean?" Double rainbow, in the sky!!

[@mrminer071166]

"It's edible . . . but people don't eat it." Slowly dawning on Jared that it's not going to be good . . .

[@WeirdExplorer]

I've been surprised before :)

[@Albinojackrussel]

Fuchsia berries are really good but aren't cultivated or really eaten by anyone (well some are, I've had some duds, so if you want to try them try from a few plants).

[@robsonwilianwinchester9726]

@@WeirdExplorer EAT YOUR VEGETABLES (in screaming voice) I remember it from some movie I don't remember the name thought 🤔!!!

[@robsonwilianwinchester9726]

@@WeirdExplorer and keep the great work 🙂😉👍💯🔥 I'm your Brazilian fan!!!! Já tento comer butiá (have you tried eat butiá) butiá is a Palm 🌴 tree that produces little fruit that we call collocally coquinhos meaning little coconut in Portuguese!!!! And also the dried fruit on the ground can be eat the seeds!!! Pitanga is another one too . Ingá fruit . Brazilian avocado's!! Mangos . Papaya and others exotic and tropical untraditional fruit like pitanga red ones and the black or purple ones varieties !! And palmito is a kinda of heart of a native palm tree that grows in Atlántida forest or in Portuguese mata Atlántida (mata or masculine mato means Bush or Meadows) maybe you can find European fruits in Blumenau and cities alike that are formed by German's back in the day!! Figs too . We have non edible figs that we call Figueiras like the Portuguese surname Figueroa yes like LA street name!!!!!(probably he's are Portuguese that emigranted to USA)

[@robsonwilianwinchester9726]

@@Albinojackrussel some fuhsias are called brinco de princesa literally princess earnings!!!!!

[@hiromikami]

You've tasted the whole Partridge Family

[@WeAreAllOneNature]

Not bad for a vegetarian.

[@applegal3058]

Haha, this sounds bad to my mind lol I gotta get out of the gutter lol

[@jtshanks]

laughs in Bonaduce

[@anne-droid7739]

He forgot Eric. Who doubtless could have told him that the plural of calyx is calyses.

[@thexbigxgreen]

You have earned my respect.

[@jackyofalltrades9875]

My family is indigenous to Labrador and ate your third version of partridgeberry as jam and wine. It definitely has no taste on its own though.

[@Akren905]

We picked the 2nd ones in NFL near gander they were kinda blan n tart but after a frost they went from spongy to balls of juice that were super sweet and sharp like a raspberry seed

[@W9e0e2e3e4pizza]

I think they all have the same name due to people misidentifying them over time because of their similar size, color, shape. Despite how different they all are.

[@WeirdExplorer]

makes sense!

[@becky.warrthorne78]

The last berry you showed is Kinnikinic it grows in high altitudes , I gather berries and leaves and make a tea from them its used medically.

[@ProdavackaDivu]

“What does it mean??… Anyways…” lol the face and tone of voice was funny

[@YelDohan]

Whoa!!!! Double calyx!!!! What does it mean???

[@wpc456cpw]

Cracked me right up lol

[@Anonarchist]

I take it partridges like to eat small, red berries?

[@marcusjochum]

The two vestigial calyces remaining on the berry originate from the fused twin flower(s) turning into a single fruit. 2 flowers -> 1 berry... never heard of that before :D

[@MeAuntieNora]

Neat!

[@stanervin6108]

Wow, that is odd! Is it a unique fruiting style or are there other fruit producing plants in which this trait is commonly seen? Any botanists who want to enlighten us all, please feel free to shine brightly! I've seen fruit 'doubling' before, but just as a happenstance fluke occurrence. Seems to occur to stone fruits often (peaches, plums, apricots, pluots).

[@PaleoBushman]

This is absolutely one of my most favorite channels ever. Bro when you ask the question "what does this mean" regarding the berry and it's openings, I literally laughed out loud. You're such a sincere and funny person. Pretty cool.

[@anonymousbub3410]

My dad and his brothers lived in middle Pennsylvania and they as children would hike up the mountains and pick tea berries all the time and I really wanted to do that myself but they weren’t ripe the last time I went over.

[@MrDee001]

Wait. Were you supposed to eat Wax Lips? Candies back in the day didn't come with instructions.

[@toddrobertson8505]

Fresh they occasionally have just the tiniest bit of sweetness.

[@jeremybyington]

I picked one out of my yard the other week that was like a 2/10 in sweetness and just nothing after like 2 seconds. The closest description I could make was like eating a small piece of orange pulp without the bitterness.

[@WaverlyKaddafewcharecters]

I’m absolutely loving your videos and information!

[@AuntyM66]

Many thanks Jared. I learned something new today.I love berries. My favourite would be the one that taste like a blue berry and a cranberry.

[@fogsmog9325]

If it would taste good in a tea it’s an instant win, I never knew the name of these (decorative berries was all I thought)

[@dk439911]

Loving all these uploads!

[@troyclayton]

Thanks for the video. Mitchella repens and Gaultheria procumbens are almost always* found growing together in the woods of the North East, I chew a few teaberry leaves on every walk in the woods. I suspect anyone calling teaberry 'partridge berry' was just looking at the wrong plant when it was pointed out to them. edit:* might be a slight exaggeration, but as we say, they grow together a wicked lot.

[@repeat_defender]

Oh! I think those grow in my neighborhood (southern California)! I recognize that funky dry texture inside and the seeds. I was told when I was little that they were poisonous but then I saw the birds eat them all the time.

[@TravisHoeffel]

The partridge berry (the one you tried at the end)that I tried had a very slight hint of wintergreen flavor.

[@ScoriacTears]

4:59 Yummy, looks like a big chunk of toffee

[@joannedaniels-finegold7760]

I would choose wintergreen. It makes a great tea (hence the name). Teaberry gum, wintergreen lifesavers- people would recognize those flavors.

[@-jank-willson]

I always thought that they were separate plants, that the teaberries were the fruit of the tea plant (that you get black and green tea from), and that wintergreen was some kind of mint related to spearmint (since it tasted similar to mint IMO)...

[@joannedaniels-finegold7760]

@WillJanke Gaultheria procumbens is the Latin name for wintergreen, which is also known as teaberry. It's in the health family along with cranberries, blueberries, heath and azaleas. Not related to mint at all

[@-jank-willson]

@@joannedaniels-finegold7760 Interesting! Never knew that. Wintergreen is a common 'minty' flavor for mints like altoids, as well as spearmint and peppermint. I assumed they were all mint family...

[@Violetkitty01]

I've eaten these a few times! I think they taste exactly like what you would think those fake decorative foam berries would taste like.

[@shanleyshoupe7873]

youre sure you didnt eat the styrofoam ones once or twice? I dont know that Id tell the difference before it was too late LOL

[@Violetkitty01]

@@shanleyshoupe7873 Only if someone was VERY determined to play a mean trick on some unsuspecting birds in the middle of a forest. Or an unsuspecting child haha

[@shanleyshoupe7873]

@@Violetkitty01 XD

[@abadatha]

Lingonberry is one of my favorite berries. They're awesome.

[@Sherirose1]

Yay, more information. Love it . Thanks so much for making the effort. We live vicariously through you. Keep it up. 🌹( side note- some people will dislike just about anything 🤦 why this video?)

[@alecity4877]

2:27 * walks inside a low end tavern * "hey dudes, you know, I've eaten all the fruits referred to as partridge berries" * tough guys at the bar stare in awe * "damn that's pretty cool" the guys at the bar say.

[@MrMcDurfy]

I have Pheasant berry in my backyard here in the U.K. Tastes of caramel, and has the texture of an overripe blue berry.

[@Myriako]

Thank you for this video! 😊🌹

[@Dayledabomb]

have you tried the blue mistery fanta flavour? do you might know what fruit it is?

[@masamunesword]

Fun fruit fact: Mitchella repens and Gaultheria procumbens both grow in the same general geographic areas and habitats and often grow together, have red berries and thick glossy leaves, and even will bear fruit at the same time, so often gets mixed up with one another. Which is probably why wintergreen ended up also picking up the nickname partridge berry.

[@applegal3058]

Not sure if it's an old wives tale, but I was always told that there is a worm in partridgeberries (lingonberries), and you shouldn't pick them until after the first frost. Very sour berry, but good for making jam or a cranberry sauce substitute. There's a LOT of pectin in those berries, and jam normally comes out almost solid jello if you don't water it down as you cook it. Edit: it's believed that the cold drives the worms from the berries.

[@XstraightjaketmanX]

Not sure if you've done one on it yet, but the Yew berry would be interesting to see. It grows in the Northeast, and in the UK and Europe (I think). People use them for hedge rows sometimes, and it looks like a bright red olive glued to a pine shrub. The seed is lethally toxic, but the flesh is used in pies and jams so... Definitely do research but something neat might be around to try

[@WeirdExplorer]

yeah I've done that one :)

[@tanyawales5445]

The yew fruits orangey-red flesh is called the aril.

[@rin_okami]

The primary flavor in root beer is (was) sassafras root (it's synthetic nowadays because sassafras is actually carcinogenic.) Along with vanilla (most common), caramel, or sometimes wintergreen. If you want a soda that really tastes like teaberry, you want birch beer. Interestingly, birch beer also doesn't actually have teaberry in it either, the minty quality comes entirely from the birch bark.

[@fegolem]

Have you tried a tea from roasted young Yaupon (Ilex vomitoria) leaves?

[@kobeleonard148]

Did you taste the ashwaghanda berries? I couldn't find any review about it

[@Unsensitive]

Been eating *Potentilla indica* lately. Almost no flavor, sometimes maybe a tiny tiny bit of sweetness. Figure they're probably good for vitamins and antioxidants.

[@veeeff2323]

Also, I suspect Lingonberry is related to or the same as high bush cranberry? The jam from Ikea is exactly the same as highbush cranberry jam, and its delicious. Or else it is very similar.

[@madeline569]

If you would make the best fruit salad (to eat just for yourself) what would you put in it?

[@raccongamefit8831]

These videos are interesting to watch.

[@frankmacleod2565]

the whole Partridge family!

[@guslook3184]

Have you had Bunchberry yet? Cornus Canadensis. Seems very similar.

[@desertbruja7032]

This last partridge berry was on a wall of bushes in a neighbors yard as a child. We were told not to eat them because they were poison. I always questioned why it didn't hurt the birds. 😂

[@user-vr2qp2hi8z]

I wish I could find some teaberry plants, but I have no luck finding them for sale.

[@suicune690]

Apparently partridgeberry was also known as Squawberry because women would make tea from the leaves, which was believed to aid in childbirth. Personally I prefer the name "Two-Eyed berry".

[@Mark-zu6oz]

I have a lot Partridge Berries growing in the woods near my house. Guess I will leave them where they are!

[@WeirdExplorer]

yeah not worth the effort unless you're making decorations

[@barrett5195]

when r u going to try the banapple (cross btw banana and apple) ?

[@ryanshields4842]

I have these growing all though the woods in my area, I've always admired how photogenic the plants are. Very beautiful. And he's right, they have absolutely zero flavor

[@esquizofreniasobrenatural]

You tried murta and calafate from Chile?

[@asahit190]

Could you review Kiss Limon Melon? I saw it at Whole Foods Market a few days ago and the employee couldn't tell me anything about it 🙄

[@morgellon9449]

Ah, that last one is apparently identical to the bearberry. I knew from his description that had to be what it was. Never knew it was called a partidgeberry. I was travelling around with some hippies about 15 years ago and some guy they picked up hitchhiking turned us onto bearberry leaves for smoking. He called it kinnikinnick, which is what it is known as by the Native American tribes who smoke it. He told us it had some kind of weak THC-like chemical, and from my own personal experience with it I think that is the case. He said they would smoke it when he was in the military. It did produce a cannabis-like effect, but very short-acting and also very mild. But the taste of the smoke is absolutely fantastic; it's like smoking candy. I've never tasted anything so delicious, smoke-wise. Which is strange, because the berries do taste like nothing whatsoever. Also, it didn't seem like it would be a very good smoke, because the leaves are very hard, woody little things when they're dry. I would definitely recommend for people who enjoy smoking and are a bit adventurous, but don't expect much of an effect (and also don't expect no effect). I think I'll actually order some online, because that stuff doesn't grow wild where I live and I've thought about it for years. Also, he already did a video about the bearberry last year. I thought it rang a bell; apparently I also commented on that video, as well! Not surprising that at this point he would have reviewed at least one berry twice not realizing it was the same one, and definitely not surprising it would be that berry.

[@ericlivingston8027]

I always find it weird when something edible tastes like nothing at all. A lot of people like dill buy I tasted it and I would also describe the taste as nothing at all of dill.

[@nozrep]

huh, i wouldn’t know either way really, other than the bottle of dill spice I used once, which smelled weird. But, then I’m wondering, why do “they” always use dill in dill pickles? How does dill pickles get a dill flavor if dill hath no flavor? Hmmmmm you have piqued my curiosity, internet person. I shall search for it. Very good comment.

[@sdfkjgh]

@Eric Livingston: You may have a genetic inability to taste dill. Actually, it might be more complex than that: you might be able to taste it, but your brain might be genetically incapable of processing &/or recognizing the signals from your tongue that are transmitting the data of dill flavor. I love what my brain perceives as the flavor of dill, and think that dill isn't used nearly enough in store-bought potato salads.

[@ericlivingston8027]

@@sdfkjgh It is weird how I can't taste it for sure. Even lettuce has some taste to me which many say has no taste at all.

[@sdfkjgh]

@@ericlivingston8027: Lemme guess, iceberg? Iceberg lettuce is the absolute worst. Eating cardboard gives more nutrition.

[@ericlivingston8027]

@@sdfkjgh Idk. like I said I can taste lettuce and I plant leaf lettuce. I like planting leaf lettuce because it regrows at least one time.

[@zsandmann]

It has two calyxes because every berry is produced by the double pollination of two flowers!! It’s a twin!

[@matthiasmorse5263]

i've never thought of wintergreen berries as tasting like wax lips but yknow what you're damn right

[@ethanskelton2882]

Nice video

[@owlleep6047]

My favorite one is the partidge berry out of the 3

[@ronnierhodes7458]

Tastes like water?

[@XDinky]

I think they taste like a very mild apple, at least that's what the ones my grandma has in her garden tasted like.

[@theokgamer113]

Hi

[@_pink_clovers]

wild t berries grow where i live (idk how to spell it and im too lazy to check) I didn't know they where called partridge berries we never call them that hmm

[@veeeff2323]

If you eat the partridge berry(the last one) right off the plant when its ripe, it does have sweetness, but very light and some flavour but it is bland. I've eaten them many times, out walking and hungry.

[@djmuldrow4376]

My old teacher would always call the last berry a snake berry and said it was poisonous, my mind has been blown to see someone eat it.

[@Lovicide]

That's cool n all, but what would all three of them combined taste like as a ketchup? Rootberry ketchup, yum

[@capnstewy55]

Sassafras root is very much the rootbeer flavor but you shouldn't eat much of it as it is slightly toxic.

[@LaineyBug2020]

So I just found the show Oddities on my Discovery+ and guess who showed up in the second episode selling a cooling table! Baby You! You looked & sounded so young!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Yeah that was maybe 10 years ago :)

[@juhonieminen4219]

1:51 Your lingonberries look very raw. There should not be any greenish tint on them, or they are super tart.

[@cheesed-kun8445]

I’m pretty early for this one

[@tanyawales5445]

Birds may eat a lot of berries but the criteria for eating them is not based on their sense of smell or taste. little use for the of . The odors of food, prey, enemies or mates quickly disperse in the wind. possess glands, but they're not well developed in most species, including the songbirds in our backyards. The same is true for , which is related to

[@KGVB757]

The last one has the texture of a wayyy too ripe blueberry

[@AimeeColeman]

OMG, FIRST FOR ONCE! Edit: Oh heck, second, not quick enough on the draw :P

[@WeirdExplorer]

so close!

[@stanervin6108]

Cheer up! You're still the first silver medalist in this heat! 🥈

[@luizmiguel24]

i'm early on this one

[@chadgreen3688]

Me too

[@asemic]

double calyx.. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? XD

[@dakingsurvivor755]

Do you have a po box so I can send some things I grow

[@sm6ck]

Hey I'm early for once hi Jared

[@djadysiti7371]

yes finally I'm early 😆😆😆

[@mealex303]

Whay does it mean 😆

[@missles7315]

Three partridge in a pear tree

[@vinala67]

The like count is 420 now

[@BichaelStevens]

Have you tried barberries (the red, long ones)? They're the most not-berry-tasting berries IMO. Barberry candy tastes 200% artificial, I wonder how real barberries compare.

[@Zsy6]

Mitchella repens tastes roughly like a piece of styrofoam.

[@canetiberius7050]

The partridge berry(3rd in the video) I’ve tried tasted like very very bland cucumber.

[@DudesPlayingGames]

That last one looks weird

[@mandab.3180]

probably ornamental bc it's tasteless. or maybe because it's been cultivated for appearance, all the flavor has been bred out of it? 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️

[@fernbreeze723]

sometimes plants just don't need to produce fruit with a strong taste ig, if something was hungry enough they'd still eat it probably edit: forgot to say that partridgeberries aren't cultivated, i think its smth about them being hard to grow and the taste not being worth it

[@Ruben-L-Trimble-mttsbf]

Lingon is pronounced ling on (:

[@ebayaccount675]

WOOAAHH DOUBLE PATRIDGE BERRY HOLE..... WHAT DOES IT MEAN??

[@LZmiljoona]

You could use them to prank someone and make them think they have the 'rona. Or maybe don't.

[@sterlinggenzer362]

I hate to be that guy, but I wouldn't eat "berries" that random people send to you in the mail.

[@brandon9172]

Algorithm comment

[@sackofwetmice428]

and a pear tree

[@WeirdExplorer]

⭐

[@Erewhon2024]

I saw one plant catalog that decided to run with that and recommend using Mitchelia repens as a groundcover for your pear trees.