CANNONBALL FRUIT Review : Incredibly bizarre and beautiful tree - Weird Fruit Explorer in Jamaica

[@WeirdExplorer]

Fun fact! Cannonball fruit is in the same family as brazil nuts. Brazil Nut Episode: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2i5gaWtoLpooKM

[@ZeusEnergyMan]

I looked it up a little because the sensation of burning you felt sounded similar to an allergy to me. I found something that said for some the under ripe fruit may be poisonous and could cause an allergic reaction. And that the underripe fruit may indeed cause a burning feeling. So yah you were pretty spot on. Some people may be able to eat it raw fine but I don’t think there would ever really be a warranted reason to try and find out. Even if it’s tolerable in small quantities. I wonder if it has to do with its relation to the Brazil nut in any way.

[@planetzodd4849]

It's your lucky day you're probably just allergic to that specific fruit for some of the acids in or something similar to the enzymes in pineapple maybe

[@WeirdExplorer]

Interesting! I'm curious what the compound is that causes the burning sensation. I'll have to try a ripe one now and compare.

[@vanjosh7763]

What if you only took the seeds, roasted them, and ate those instead?

[@JuanGomez-mv1qx]

Like a mouthwash burn?

[@-jank-willson]

you should go to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the home countries that apples originate from. There are a bunch of weird apple varieties there, like ones that have juicy creamy fillings in the centers(like gushers I heard), and some that taste like bananas. You could dedicate your trip to just unique apple varieties...

[@michaelgrossman5059]

If this is True upvote this!

[@-jank-willson]

Kazakhstan is certainly the tourism capital of the world!

[@jeffdubuque5622]

I once had one that had a strawberry taste to it here in Ontario.

[@RobRuckus65]

I've heard of apples with a banana taste. Never had one before. Here in Ohio in the us. Pretty much all of the apples just taste like apples with slight variations to color, tartness, sweetness, and texture. Until you try the wild ones then they are usually mealy and bitter.

[@Sedgewise47]

Will Janke What the-??(!)-So will *somebody* explain WHY_ such apples aren’t being marketed in the US???

[@hello-ji7qj]

"Pins and needles" burning is calcium oxalate. Same problem with monstera deliciosa - the calcium oxalate crystals don't go away until it's ripe.

[@weatheranddarkness]

From the description i kinda sounded more like a zippy ferment. It's nice to learn something new!

[@finsanders8021]

forms crystals in your brain

[@FreeFireFull]

I guess eating unripe cannonball fruit would give you killer kidney stones, then.

[@derpsharkslife9152]

that's what kidney stones are made of. oof

[@DaimyoD0]

I was told by an ex-girlfriend, a botanist, that monstera seed pods were edible. Somehow I managed to tune out the rest of the conversation in which she told me it should be cooked first. Accompanied by a new friend, I encountered one at a music festival, presumably left by a camper for amusement and observation by others. My new friend and I tried eating the seeds. Around the point I felt like I had a mouth full of broken glass I realized my mistake and told the other guy to stop chewing lol. Having known about calcium oxalate from a history of kidney stones and warnings surrounding rhubarb greens, I knew immediately that the next few hours were to be very unpleasant.

[@zayonkiber2510]

This man is doing the dream for all of us plant lovers

[@vegetibilis2422]

Plant lovers meat nuts and seeds and avocados lol

[@BetterJS]

Fruit lovers lol

[@GlaciusTS]

If you call devouring their fetuses love, well I guess, yeah. Lol

[@excitedpiccolo4098]

I love all animals but I don’t go around tasting them all

[@theelectricant98]

@@GlaciusTS some have evolved to "want" that

[@butterflygroundhog]

"you shouldn't eat things that burn you" Peppers: am I a joke to you?

[@ix8750]

@Zac Crow uhhhh sorry but It's not a mental thing. Capsaicin is a chemical and peppers produce it. it can irritate skin and eyes after touching them capsaicin is concentratated to make non lethal sprays such as Mace (better known as pepper spray) which if used in excess can even blind a person. When you get burned by peppers they are definitely chemical burns if they didn't have the chemical they wouldn't be spicy. They'd all just taste like bell peppers.

[@ix8750]

@Zac Crow The reason mint is cold is because menthol, which is a chemical as well, and while I agree both capsaicin and menthol can indeed trick people into feeling hot or cold I felt like it needed to be said because of the way you phrased them as a mind trick when it's really it's just our senses attempting to perceive and react to a chemical reaction.

[@HidingAllTheWay]

@@ix8750 no, capsaicin doesn't cause chemical burns, the "burning" sensation is completely fake (it actually makes the heat receptors super-sensitive). It does however cause _inflammation_ , since the body and its immune system thinks that it is being burned and essentially freaks out.

[@invertexyz]

@@ix8750 You are grossly misusing the term chemical. "Chemical" does not imply a substance that is harmful to you. You are made up almost entirely of chemicals. Nearly every component of what you eat is a "chemical". The word you're looking for would be "irritant" or "inflammatory" or "caustic", capsaicin being the first/second term primarily.

[@TheGeekyChef1190]

@@HidingAllTheWay you can get blisters from super hot chiles.... that's not in the mind.

[@pattheplanter]

Very, very unripe. The bloke who gave it its botanical name in 1775 described how to consume it, only after it has fallen from the tree of its own accord: Its pulp becomes liquid, the colour of wine lees; in this state it did not appear to me to be of an unpleasant taste. To preserve this capsule, it is necessary to pierce it with an auger in two opposite places, in order to facilitate the exit of the juice which it contains; then the inner capsule is free, and rolls in the exterior. This fruit is very heavy in its maturity, it would be dangerous to endure the shock when it falls. Sa pulpe devient liquide, de couleur de lie de vin; dans cet état elle ne m'a point paru d'un goût desagréable. Pour conserver cette capsule, l'on est obligé de la percer avec une tarriere en deux endroits opposés, afin de faciliter la sortie du suc qu'elle contenoit; alors la capsule intérieure se trouve libre, & roule dans dans l'extérieure. Ce fruit est fort pesant dans sa maturité, il seroit dangereux d'en essuyer le choc lorsqu'il tombe. The local name was _couroupitoutoumou_ and in French "savage apricot".

[@representelanation4463]

Pat The Plant avoue que tu voulais flexer ton français haha

[@seriogamarkovas5407]

He should do a "how to properly consume a cannonball fruit", I don't know much information about it but Im sure what you say it's true and I want to believe it is so. I do hope Weird Explorer sees this reply and considers it.

[@mcmh9523]

That's really fascinating. Thanks for the information!

[@silverwind9906]

@jagfruit 1 i want hin to try it when its ripe

[@HalaandaiseSauce]

thank you!

[@catherinechase5858]

In the words of Ralph Wiggum "They taste like burning"!

[@1337fraggzb00N]

You're helping.

[@kybravo3744]

😂

[@lillanakitten]

😂

[@stevemonkey6666]

Here is a man committed to his task by eating a supposedly disgusting fruit that insects have invaded. Props to you 😬

[@genkestrel7254]

Insects have abandoned! ;-)

[@melissaball2773]

Lol.. OMG. Your suppose to make wine out of this..not eat it. I bet the person that gave it to him was thinking "I told him what not to do, another traveler passing through, he'll learn just like the rest of them" 😇

[@beakerface]

@@melissaball2773 The guy tricked him for money, it wasn't ripe

[@alexcarter8807]

Figs are pollinated or something, where bugs go inside ....

[@TheJazzWasALie]

@@alexcarter8807 bugs that go inside always do it for food, pollination only takes place in the flowers

[@aaliyaqureshi9851]

My husband and I snuck on to the resort in Seychelles that grants access to Anse Georgette and they had one tree on the property. The flower smelled incredible.

[@AtlanticGRW]

I know this fruit from the Sims Castaway for the ps2 lol, it made your Sim vomit so I am not surprised it's terrible, the color looks very unappetising and reminds me of soap.

[@bagsbugs3024]

That game was soo fun back in the day!

[@snowparody]

@@bagsbugs3024 i still find it fun until now ^^

[@nikokareno4156]

The ancient games are all great. So many good ones on the ps2.

[@therealmichaelscott7902]

Blue cheese

[@sazji]

True blue is often sort of a “warning, don’t eat this” color.

[@stumbling]

Yes, but what with nature being an asshole it also occassionally marks deliciousness with this colour too. I am thinking of mushrooms, never had the balls to eat one that bruises blue.

[@gabrielhamilton2880]

@@stumbling Some of the ones that turn blue are pretty fun ;)

[@MaxOakland]

It's not blue, it's teal or green

[@philidor9657]

A lot of fungus, particularly the psychedelic variety, also will oxidize in air to become a very similar blue. Different kingdom, but I wonder if it the same process.

[@abelincoln7473]

I immediately thought of wode, starts out a green plant with yellowish flowers, makes a transparent dye, but doesn't turn blue until the air hits it.

[@DaimyoD0]

"It is proposed that the blue color is due to a transition metal compound (probably a copper compound) comprising a psilocin derivative. The copper reagent probably comes from an enzyme present in many (but not all) species of psilocybin-containing mushrooms. Upon exposure to oxygen and water, psilocybin/psilocin reacts with the copper reagent to generate a new (blue, water soluble) copper coordination compound. Many copper compounds are known to have a deep blue color.4 Notably, many copper amines are deep blue. The most famous (and fundamental) example is probably adding ammonia to a solution of copper2+ ion" If I had to guess, both reactions (and the bluing of distantly related bolete mushrooms) are mediated by a copper compound, but seeing as cannonball fruit doesn't contain psilocybin, it's shouldn't be the same reaction.

[@philidor9657]

@@DaimyoD0 Interesting. This is why I study chemistry and not biology lol. Thanks for the info!

[@kybravo3744]

@@philidor9657liberty caps turn blue when you pick them, I read online its some sort of bruising

[@herrkulor3771]

There is also a fish, where the bones turn turqoise when cooked. It is called horngädda or näbbgädda in swedish. Suitable to your profile picture of a fish. Edit; scientific name: Belone Belone

[@detectfevi]

Try lleuque, my man! It's a Chilean fruit that comes from a pine and we're in season! Maybe your followers that live in a zone with the tree can send you some. It has a nice taste!

[@empress9554]

What does it taste like?

[@MeAuntieNora]

Megatherium might be my favorite genus of extinct animals... Imagining them cronch through those shells en masse is pretty crazy.

[@gooseteamsix5894]

Im just sad that they somehow went extinct

[@TheWeirdestOfBugs]

There's a megatherium fossil in a museum in my city (I live in South America)

[@MeAuntieNora]

@@TheWeirdestOfBugs That's cool! I remember reading that some caves in South America actually preserved soft tissue really well too.

[@WeirdExplorer]

I was shocked to see just how big they are!

[@TheWeirdestOfBugs]

@@MeAuntieNora I wouldn't be surprised.

[@ericr154]

Cannonball fruit looking like its about to give the the hardest most insane trip anyone has ever experienced.

[@danielcockerill3761]

When something turns blue You know it can't be good for you

[@nathanaelqc5186]

That person would be tripping balls, Canon balls !

[@B_4035mn]

More like "When something turns blue you know it can'̶t̶ be good for you" *Downs 5 grams of psilocybin.*

[@Siimii]

him: tastes like juicy apple me: =) mmm ok him: and burning rubber me: =( ok

[@AlbinoAxolotl]

I’m so excited you’re doing sausage fruit next!! We have a large tree near us and I’ve harvested the fruit for seeds many times and they’re SO HARD! I literally have to carve and whittle the seeds out and I’ve been curious if the fruit is always that incredibly solid or if it ripens more elsewhere. I don’t understand how the tree is able to propagate if the fruit is always that damn hard. The seeds will never come out! Can’t wait to see what it is like in a true tropical climate!

[@markheller197]

When I first saw that in your hand I thought Sapodilla. I love the old exhibit at the Museum of Natural History NYC of the Giant Sloth an epic extinct megafauna R.I.P. As always great research. Thank you.

[@koantao8321]

I have a giant sloth on the sofa with a can of beer watching TV. I would love to sling one or two of these fruits to him right now...

[@WeirdExplorer]

🤣

[@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead]

Pretty sick of the troll boomer comments.

[@koloblicin]

@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead ok boomer

[@tiaangerber9471]

@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead I agree, it is funny when used in the right context, but just hurling 'ok boomer' at everything is like playing a nice song over and over and over again. It gets old.

[@JEMHull-gf9el]

@@tiaangerber9471 yeah I hate at that.

[@A77-n5h]

*Mega fauna have entered the chat*

[@peach_bearies]

I appreciate your reactions lol over the top “EWWW THIS DISGUSTING” is a typical youtube reaction, and it’s the worst but your videos are great!

[@wendiland]

Thank you for sharing. I was intrigued by this tree when traveling in Vietnam. Was tempted to try it, but I couldn’t since it was grown in a temple. :D

[@jussayinmipeece1069]

some fruits have to begin to ferment aftr they fall from the tree and remain on the ground for a while and this my be one of those. When i was a kid i made extra money by picking up fallen coffee beans after the crop was over and the ground had dried out. That coffee was fermented and usually sold for like ten times what normal coffee sold for.

[@charlessalvador8296]

Your the best man most youtubers nowadays are so fake and overly happy all the time your actually a genuine awsome person thank you for making all these videos they are very entertaining and interesting 😀

[@alfonsomural4792]

So it may not quite be a fruit but I really want to recommend toothache plant or acmella oleracea. It has a unique sourish taste and turns your mouth numb. Pretty cool flower.

[@TheCaptainLulz]

That burning might be oxalate, that causes kidney stones.

[@Kikilang60]

Thanks. I was waiting for a video from you this morning.

[@PaintballGargoyle]

Hey, been following you for a few years now and absolutely love your content and education!

[@singingsiren82]

It's funny, there's a chef I watch who doesn't like anything colored blue because blue plants/growths in the wild normally don't taste good, are toxic mold, etc (blueberries are purple when smooshed), and it seems that is no different here. Lol.

[@planescaped]

It's an old adage that blue foods are not good/edible/are poisonous. Our brains are even wired to see blue food as "wrong"

[@ColonelBummleigh]

That looks like it would restore 1300 Stamina. Or kill you.

[@aclemons6674]

Bruh yes

[@zoopz.9969]

your channel is so underrated smh. love your vids man!

[@evybabee]

Interesting. Flesh turning blue is often an indicator of psilocybin in mushrooms.

[@taimarie6218]

One of my favourite episodes, the colour after oxidation is so cool

[@lilBabyBornInCalifornia]

its not oxidizing, its bruising. the blue is a damage response

[@blatinobear]

So glad to see your channel growing so much finally

[@gralteindauphinois7793]

Here in Honduras you are not supposed to eat them. You put them in the sun and wait for like a week and boom : maracas or 2 bowls!!

[@crow_feather]

I really hope you were okay after eating that! That sounded dangerous and painful! 😳 The fruit's cool looking on the inside, though! I like the blue color after it oxidizes! Thanks for sharing it with us...even if it burned!

[@ochrence]

What's interesting to me is that most accounts I have read from people who have eaten this fruit say that it smells particularly foul - not just like burning rubber. They make comparisons not unlike those that you made for the noni fruit. Did you notice any kind of funk to the fruit, or was it maybe a little too unripe?

[@alexkuhn5078]

Even after you described the taste, I cannot look at that fruit without thinking 'urinal cake'

[@mandab.3180]

idk why, but it just looks like something that shouldn't be eaten. that multi-color bluish hue is kinda sickly.. gives me the heebie jeebies 😰

[@oo8962]

I think it looks like cotton candy

[@sammyyy3948]

In Cambodia, we have a different kind. The rind is much smaller and its smaller. When its raw, the skin is hard and white and tastes slightly sweet/sour and had a very bitter, mouth numbing taste. We often eat it as a snack with chili salt. When it's ripe, the skin turns dark brown and becomes soft. It tastes much sweeter and much less sour then when its ripe. It makes a really nice dessert when mixed with a bit of sugar

[@AruthKandage]

0:36 That's a pothos leaf (a climbing vine), not the tree's own.

[@acedastray6633]

LOL 🌱

[@davidonfim2381]

Pothos is a different genus, that plant is now in Epipremnum.

[@lucastham9328]

Epipremnum aureum, its everywhere in the tropics

[@nunyabisnes1058]

Those aren't actually the trees leaves at 0:35 ... Those are Epipremnum aureum, otherwise known as "Devil's Ivy" or "Golden pothos" in the houseplant community. They're an epiphytic vine, meaning they grow on trees. They dont usually grow such big leaves but in its natural environment or green houses it can get massive. Source: I work in a plant store

[@hebneh]

There are two of these cannonball trees in Foster Garden in Honolulu, and maybe one or two at the University of Hawaii campus in Manoa. The older of the two at Foster Garden has pink flowers; the younger has dark red ones, like the one shown in this video. The flowers not only look very striking but they smell nice too, and they still look fresh when they fall off the tree. But the fruit I've only seen far up on the trunks.

[@chmchn]

Lived in Jamaica all my life and this is my first time seeing one of these...wow

[@kenya-jaidejohnson899]

Same, nah lie

[@victorianilsen763]

Good to know. I planted my next said the canal so I hope that the fruit someday will be carried down the canal..

[@satya6400]

You should try the gum gum fruit

[@lemagreengreen]

Crazy looking fruit, the colour alone is interesting. Is it truly white until it oxidises? it seems like it was even a little bit blue as soon as it was cracked open.

[@kalex5705]

Have you tried panen nanas raksasa/medusa. It looks like a sprouted pineapple 😊

[@theeel8981]

Try the kepel apple if you can. It’s in Malaysia in the island of Borneo.(They are semi-rare.)

[@lurkingemu2897]

You commented on the leaves to the tree, but those leaves were not part of the tree! That was a giant golden pothos.

[@twahiralam]

It is called "Nag Champa" in Eastern India and we had one in our college. Never knew it was edible but happy that I did not know.

[@WeirdExplorer]

😂

[@mainakdeb8322]

We have many in parks and old campuses in kolkata.. the flowers are really gorgeous and have a strong scent that some find overwhelming.. and the trees can grow very big. Nobody here seems to eat the fruits.

[@b.rileyjowett6925]

Those large leaves with pale yellow speckles/variegation don’t belong to the tree they appear to be those of the golden pothos which is actually a popular houseplant that can get huge in nature.

[@SarahAndBoston]

Thanks for this video! I am visiting Mumbai, India in November and these trees are all over the place. I just ripped one off a tree and was going to take it to a coconut vendor to open it for me (they have the machetes) so I could try it, but this video is a cautionary tale, I'll skip it for now.

[@squidlover7615]

OMG you blew up! nice work your channel is interesting as hell

[@ravick007]

Giant sloths are really missing here in South America. :'( So many species that would need them to keep being alive and get their seeds dispersed if we were not here to plant them.

[@nicholaskarako5701]

Interesting how some fruits if they're not fully ripened can be unpleasant, astringent and in this case tasted like burning rubber. First time I had a persimmon I didn't know that there were to categories astringent and non-astringent. The one I had bought if its not completely ripened until it feels like you holding a water balloon in your hands don't eat it yet. If was the non-astringent type I would of be able to enjoy in the same way if I had selected a fresh tomato.

[@tamitrue6082]

There are fruits that do burn, are peppers in fruit family? One those is it fruit or vegetable conundrum things, seeds in tomatos but what catergory do they fall in? The one he has looks pretty jacked up too, that moldy color goin on a normal thing? Looks like the last orange at the bottom bag thats been there for months!

[@narwhalian233]

Your videos are amazing! Keep up the good work!

[@hebneh]

I've read that things that cause a burning sensation in your mouth can be dangerous when swallowed, if they cause your throat to swell after being ingested - which can cut off your air supply.

[@oakstrong1]

At first it looked like a wood/ elephant apple (Limonia acidissima) I have come across in Cambodia, where it is eaten as a snack with salt and chilli or perhaps with sugar, so I thought it is related, but it is clearly different. The fruit looks inside and tastes very different in its raw and ripe stage - but how would you describe it? Wikipedia says it originates from India and does not mention Cambodia at all, although it does seem to grow in the forests across SE Asia.

[@SkullTheLegless]

Your content is really interesting, I don’t know why I don’t watch it more often...

[@FakeSugarVillain]

Homie straight up gave you a real cannonball

[@darellgrant8753]

I love how pleasant he is! What is his first name? Been subbed for a minute now and still don't know. He's amazing...

[@xPumaFangx]

His name was Robert Paulson.

[@TheWeirdestOfBugs]

Jared.

[@cellfreezer]

Jared Rydelek. He's a traveling contortionist, fire eater etc IIRC.

[@empress9554]

Is he really?

[@cellfreezer]

@@empress9554 Yeah, you can google his name and see photos and videos of his performance.

[@eeeehale]

For someone with fire breathing on his résumé to say something burns his mouth, you know it's serious. Maybe you can try a ripe one some day... IF you will.

[@somethingboutgardening9532]

Have you tried the Jerusalem cherry ? (Solanum psuedocapsicum) if you haven't I'd be willing to grow it for you to taste

[@tolget4684]

The best kinds of mushrooms turn blue when handled...same shade as the fruit had. Would be interesting to see psilocybin in a tree fruit. Would of made the rest of your day, well... interesting.

[@Saskguy20]

Best kind of mushroom eh? Haha I'd agree. Psilocybin mushrooms to me are closer to a mind medicine than drug. Studies have shown antipsychotics properties when given to delusional patients. More research needs to be done on that group of mushrooms.

[@pattheplanter]

The colour in this case is chemically similar to the blue dyes from woad and indigo, it is an indole but not psychoactive. Just the colour of blue denim.

[@Saskguy20]

@@pattheplanter not every blue means psychoactive.

[@radionoakmont7756]

id love to get seeds of the cannonball fruit majorly it sounds like it ie highly acidic and love that color of blue also i definetely would love to grow some.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Like chocolate sapote; that needs to picked then left on the side for 2+ days to go soft.

[@Strawberrypocky911]

It has the taste of "burning rubber" OMG!! That was a HUGE miss! I wish you had gotten one that was ripe! :P

[@abovetheflood862]

I remember a guide telling us that these fruits were "spicy" like a hot pepper when visiting South America. I wonder if the "burning" sensation comes from a compound that acts similar to capsaicin?

[@moomoopuppy5810]

I've seen these trees at the Foster botanical garden in the middle of Honolulu, Hawaii. I went there with my cousin to see if the Time tan Arum "corpse flower" was in bloom. It turns out we missed the One dat event/window where it's supposed to smell like rotting meat. They have two or three cannonball fruit trees with warning signs stating to be aware/cautious of the falling fruit. Supposedly, someone was hurt when it fell onto their head.

[@kumaragurusubramanian581]

1:57 did you ever did a video or tasted the other fruit in this frame.... It is also related to the Canon ball tree... By the way you didn't mention about the smell of those flowers... They smell as they look.. Really bizarre trees

[@sandycoble8749]

I love the flowers.

[@lillian8951]

In the mushroom hunting world people generally avoid white mushrooms that turn blue cause they’re usually poisonous. Watching this made me so nervous lol

[@neillcoetzer9133]

What? No. That isn't true in the slightest. To begin with there aren't many too many species that bruise blue. And of them that do bruise blue the vast majority aren't poisonous, they're psychoactive, psychedelic to be more precise (from Psilocybe sp. to Panaeolus sp.) And then blue isn't a perfect indicator for that even as in many active species (E.G. Gymnopilus aeruginosus) you would have a hard time telling if it's bruising blue or not, then not to mention there is at least 1 species that I've personally found that bruises blue and is considered choice, and that's Gyroporus cyanescens. I've heard this old wives tale in the past but it simply isn't true. If you do find something that does bruise blue then be happy more than anything else since it's a really helpful ID feature Edit: the KZbin channel Learn Your Land had a video on it as well

[@lillian8951]

@@neillcoetzer9133 oh cool thanks for the info. I guess I only know the old wives tale. Eating anything that bruises blue still seems unappetizing to me though lol

[@neillcoetzer9133]

@@lillian8951 Yeah there's a lot of misinformation out there on mushroomhunting, starting new it can be so hard to discern truth from these stories (and I don't want do discredit them necessarily because there is probably a reason they exist, for example, psilocybin might not be toxic but you sure as hell dn't want to be making that for your family after a nice day hiking) and yeah fair point about it being unappetizing

[@henryq9390]

Humm juicy tart burning rubber sounds like a perfect flavor for something no clue what but something

[@46狼]

Okay, but the wild golden pothos on that tree is just so beautiful!

[@Dafoodmaster]

man gotta love a good machete. how else are you gonna get to the tingly blue roundy fruit?

[@PseudonymPersona]

Those grow all over my home town, didn't know anyone tried to eat them.

[@joelfreak]

Yummy burning rubber!

[@rameshraghothama8324]

when i was younger , i thought this 'fruit tree' was a native of Indonesia, only much later did i learn it was from the Tropical Americas.Blue 'fruits' always look like poison to me. in fact in my mind poison has the visualization color of dull green blue - like copper sulfate :) .So whatever fruit you eat , please don't eat the cassowary 'plum' .

[@bethanytimmons6163]

Come to Australia. Have heaps of native endemic fruits here that I’m pretty sure you won’t find outside of the southern land. Like quandongs and Sand paper figs.

[@WeirdExplorer]

I have already bought my tickets :) If you know any good places to find fruit let me know!

[@bethanytimmons6163]

Weird Explorer I don’t have any locations that I could recommend, the Gondwana rainforests over east would be your best option to check out as well as the botanical gardens. Definitely go to the most tropical part of the continent. But as for which gardens exactly I couldn’t tell you.

[@bethanytimmons6163]

Weird Explorer And also if you haven’t already, hit up Pete Kanaris. He’s a fruit maniac 👌👌👌

[@benny_lemon5123]

Maybe 5 bucks wasn't enough beer money? 🤣 In all seriousness though, there is a measure of risk to doing what you do. What is your criteria for trying an exotic fruit? Like you said, some fruit may not be safe in a particular state from a particular tree so there's definitely some discretion in use. Also, I kinda assume you don't have any allergies to worry about? Anyway, great video!

[@mfree80286]

I have the sense now, knowing that the fruit eventually liquefies, that basically the guy from the first garden sold what is essentially tree trimmings, maybe thinking it was taken for ornamental value. The husk was already penetrated, and likely the pulp would have drizzled out the hole and the shell wouldn't have fallen off the tree as it was supposed to... and made a mess on the ground underneath as well.

[@xPumaFangx]

How to properly cook a cannonball fruit. 1. Acquire the proper oven. The Oven is a long iron tube with one side covered. The walls of the oven should be thick. On the covered end you should have a small hole in it. The hole is for the lighter. 2. Load the fuel for the oven. Prior to loading the fuel you want to make sure that the Oven is clean. A Unclean oven is a very dangerous oven. Which could lead to a oven blowing up. You need to load in and pack down a sack of black powered to fuel the cooking. Then hay or paper is used on top of the fuel. This is meant as a place to cook the Fruit. 3. Loading the fruit. Right before loading the fruit you want to angle to mouth of the oven at a 45 degree angle. This will lead to the proper cooking time. When loading the Fruit into the oven make sure to ram it down softly. This will help with the cooking time. 4. Cooking the Fruit. Now that you have loaded the fruit into the oven and is ready for cooking. You need to take a small langth of rope and place that into the hole talked about in step one. Make sure that the rope is covered with the black powder that is loaded inside the oven. Also take note that the rope needs to be a little bit longer than the hole is deep. This will lead to a better cooking time. Then light the rope. 5. Collecting the Fruit Well after the Fruit is cooked it will come out of the oven on its own. If you used too much fuel. The fruit will not be found. If you used just enough Fuel the fruit will be found. You might have to find different spots where the fruit was cooked too. If you use too little fuel the fruit will be uncooked inside the oven wondering why it is uncooked.

[@rprimbs]

Wow, I have heard of that tree, but I have never heard of anybody eating it. I thought it was poisonous! That's crazy.

[@k8eekatt]

The quick look to the left always tells me: interesting review on the way!

[@JEMHull-gf9el]

haha it tastes like burning! now you need a burning scale 0-10. 0 it only slightly burns your mouth and you have time to spit it out, 10 it burns your mouth so fast and your mouth blisters and peels before you can spit it out.

[@WeirdExplorer]

In this case it gets a 2 out of 10.

[@kayokocalef2918]

We have 2 trees at Forster Botanical Garden, 2 trees at University of Hawaii @ Manoa in Honolulu.

[@nickc8863]

I love you man! you are so dedicated!

[@Kavukamari]

it's turning teal. is there a lot of copper inside this fruit?

[@vykx88]

Kudos to you for trying Jared, for I have never seen anyone eat that here. A prominent high school I attended had a huge cannon ball tree. It was the first I've ever seen such a tree and the flowers had a pungent odour...very smelly...not a bad smell but smelly nonetheless. That tree never bore fruit during the time I attended and never knew that type of tree could until I left and saw another one elsewhere. I'm quite concerned though that you have been given fruit that was not ready just like the young ohtahiete apple you got. There are some people who are willing to turn a blind eye just for a little money even when they know better and it looks bad on the rest of us Jamaicans. Wish you had found another person like Ibba Lion who will advise you properly on handling certain fruits for I'm sure that the man who picked the unripe apple or cannonball would probably pick an unripe ackee and let you try it.

[@benparkinson8314]

Love your show dude

[@jennylee9278]

As you were talking about eating it I was thinking that would be a bad place to have a really bad allergic reaction.

[@KateInTheCity]

Those huge leavesare actually a pothos plant. They grow up trees and the leaves become giant!

[@lyledal]

"I'm going to go wash my mouth out... So, that was a mistake." Noted!

[@UniversalHomeboy]

The blue oxidation got the mushroom forager in me super excited. Team Bolete & Team Psilocybe hunters know what I mean

[@jonsey3645]

Is blueness not a universal warning in the quaziedible vegetable?

[@bolengerin]

Those are the leaves of a vine/herb at the bottom, looks like dumb cane. Next time look for Mammey (not the Sapote, the ones in Jamaica is overwhelmingly like apricot the one you tried sounded quite different), breadnut, (Brosimum), and tan to pink Custie/Bull's Heart (Annona reticulata) taste like a sweet tangy savory vanilla yogurt. There are some ornamental and semi wild berries that are edible too around there Ixora, Ardisia (just called berry in NE to N Jamaica), Fiddlewood. Also most of the fruit trees in Jamaica besides the mangoes are not grafted so you get interesting variation with the Annonas and West Indian Avocados and sometimes jackfruit (seed grown jackfruit are sometimes just mediocre). The Otaheiti/Jamaica Apple was fine the way you ate it, but also eaten when softer juicier and sweeter closer to purple (more like watermelon in texture). Also about 8 varieties of pineapple and lots of different sugarcanes. The sugarcane juice is worth trying too. Cerasee (sehr a see) is a close relative to bitter melon and used for tea... lots of them all around if you want to snack on the arils around the seed. Also some wild vine cacti related to dragonfruit. Jamaicans make a rich spiced drink from Kola Nut which they call Bissy which is great! I'd be negligent if I didnt mention fresh nutmeg and mace and jamaican ginger and cinnamon leaf/stem... Whole heap of bush tea and medicinal plants too like cheney root and sarsparilla.

[@thedeepchurch3650]

I did a dieta in Peru with this plant for 1 month, and I did not eat it but I bathed in water prepared with it and after that I went to sleep and went into the most psychedelic dream I ever had

[@joshc7154]

Hey, here's an idea - maybe try a ripe one? 🤨