Eugenia comparison (Cherry of the Rio Grande, Savanah Cherry, Pitanga) Weird Fruit Explorer Ep 193

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"019 Ffuge No Five" by Miranda taylor and Mike Hunchback
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[@ashleysanchez1163]

I discovered your channel when I looked up the Peanut Butter fruits. I then ended up watching about 5 videos, and I'm watching more now! I love your enthusiasm and mannerism, and you explain the fruit better than most people! I'm only 17, and have just dwelled into the world of tropical fruits. I'm sprouting the seeds now, and the fruit was amazing! (I got a 9lb half for $9.) I just wanted to say that I love your channel. I have to catch up first, but please make more videos!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Thanks Ashley!

[@notmyworld44]

I remember Surinam Cherries from my early childhood in Florida, 70 years ago. (In Florida in the 1940s and 1950s they were called "Japanese Cherries".) Since then I have never lived anyplace where they can grow, but I have never been able to forget the gorgeous heavenly fragrance and taste of them. I know we will have them in abundance in Heaven, and at my age I'm not too far from there now.

[@wpc456cpw]

❤️

[@jolus6678]

Wow. To me they taste like bell peppers that have been sprayed with a bit of lady's perfume. I just find them very unpleasant tasting. I guess everyone tastes things differently.

[@stephanieprado2880]

@@jolus6678 You probably had them underripe, happened to me lol They have to be very red if it's the more common variety, or very dark like the one in this video. If they're orange it's not good.

[@jolus6678]

@@stephanieprado2880 , no I've had them at all stages, including super dark and overipe. Nearly everyone I know in my tropical fruit growing group thinks Surinam cherries have an absolutely terrible aftertaste. But I have one friend who I told to try it and much to my surprise he found them fairly good🤣...He described them as a cross between a bell pepper and a cherry without the horrible aftertaste everyone else I know picks up on. He actually started eating them all off my tree.

[@stephanieprado2880]

@@jolus6678 Wow that's interesting, I never met anyone that doesn't like them! I Guess we're just diverse 😁

[@FlyingFoxFruits]

solid video!! A+++ You are my favorite news to watch, real reporting!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Flying Fox Fruits thanks Adam!

[@freakfreak786]

i was salivating when you reviewed the Pitanga I used to hunt these as a kid after school, probably the most delicious fruits ive eaten very unique

[@whatthereq]

I live in a big capital and all those grow on my block, I believe there are three trees of each. It's funny to see these as exotic fruits.

[@TealeBritstra]

We have a native Eugenia here in Australia, too (Eugenia reinwardtiana - Beach Cherry or Ceday Bay Cherry). It's one of my favourite "bush tucker" plants, so would be interesting to compare to other Eugenia varieties too. I'll do it one day. It's also highly variable across its range.

[@jkb8748]

I’ve been watching a lot of your videos recently. Very cool! I’ve been into mangoes lately, as I’m trying to grow some of my own in San Diego. Of course I want to grow the best tasting varieties there are, and have found that there are many, many of them, with flavors as different as coconut, pineapple, spicy, floral, citrus, etc, in a mango flavor background. You mention Gary Zill in this video - he’s responsible for developing many of the newest, “elite”, top tasting mangoes that are available in the specialty mango market and have been decades in development. Would love to see you compare some of hundreds of mango varieties that are out there. I think you have and advantage over me in that growers in Florida may be able to ship them to you. I can’t get them shipped to me in CA due to agricultural regulations. So if you run out of weirder fruit to taste, how about some Lemon Zest, Coconut Cream, Pina Colada, Fruit Punch, and Orange Sherbet mangoes?? (to name just a few)?

[@alejandroguerra9413]

The trick with pitanga is to not use your teeth at all when eating it. Spit the seed out without trying to clean it of the stringy bits and don't chew the flesh. I f it was proper ripe it'll melt in your mouth and won't have that weird flavor from chewing the bits.

[@etymos6644]

A ripe pitanga always tasted like fragrant wine to me. One of my favourite fruit.

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

I come here a lot to find out about the taste of fruits I'm considering growing in Florida. But I have to wonder now, since you said that Surinam cherry has a bell pepper taste. It might, if the bell pepper was pickled in turpentine for a month.

[@Lcdsantos]

I live in São Paulo, Brazil. On my street we have one eugenia brasiliensis (aka grumixama) and two eugenia involucrata (aka cherry of the Rio Grande). And they are full of fruits on this mmonth!

[@zoieblaise7356]

Luis Santos sir can i buy seeds of them please!

[@thenamesaregone9]

When I tasted both the normal and black Suriname Cherry, the gasoline/resinous taste reminded me of Indian curry leaf (Murraya koenigii). They'd probably make a great chutney or jam.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Yeah! Suriname cherry jam would be excellent

[@I.amthatrealJuan]

Nice video comparison. There are at least a thousand species of Eugenias around Tropical America, some of those species highly esteemed in the regions where such things grow. I hope you get more species to show in the future.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Me too!

[@stephanieprado2880]

This is great. I have both the red and the purple varieties of pitanga plants growing in pots here in Brazil, I'm excited to see them grow and produce fruits one day. Personally, I think the purple ones taste much better, but I love the red ones as well. Where I live you can find the trees in the sidewalks, they're pretty common. Also, thanks for this video I found out about the name of cherry of the rio grande. I used to pick these fruits from a tree near my house and found them delicious, but never knew what they were since they're not commercial fruits and not very mainstream.

[@censusgary]

I have a tiny Surinam Cherry plant from a seed I sprouted several months ago. If I ever get any fruit from it, I'll send you some.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Nice! hope it grows well for you

[@organicgrow4440]

Gary Cooper Hi Gary. How’s your Surinam Cherry now?

[@DankFroot]

I've got a few dozen Eugenia species growing. I hope to one day share some ultra rare fruits with you, as your videos got me to start collecting fruit. I'll get in touch when I get something special fruited

[@arnierc4]

Have you tried podocarpus fruit? Delicious little things

[@Chapola94]

Here we call the cherry of Rio Grande "cerejinha-do-mato", litteraly meaning forest cherry.

[@ofon2000]

This nursery in Houston sold me one of these but was labeled as Pitomba. Kinda sucks 'cause the fruit tastes good but the seeds are so damn big

[@Shanask487]

i was told the Suriname cherry is extremely sour, as it contains huge load of vitamin c

[@WeirdExplorer]

Nah they aren't that sour. You might be thinking Barbados Cherry. Those have crazy amounts of Vitamin C

[@valterzc8187]

We have a lot of them here growing in nature, we call them pitanga and are nothing sour.

[@organicgrow4440]

This is very bizarre I had 2 Surinam Cherries 1 red & 1 purple variety but both were sour and tastes similar to lemon rind.

[@miguel.pt.fruits2369]

Hi Jared... if you ever come to Portugal please say something in advance and if in season you can try several of my Eugenia fruits... I do have a reasonable colection and actually I am the owner of the mother tree where those Eugenia calycina trees from Adam came from... best regards and keep up the good work

[@WeirdExplorer]

Sure thing! I'll definitely make an announcement on here if I plan on going :) No plans at the moment

[@frankmacleod2565]

I guess you've never done a review of the dingleberry. Haven't seen it on your channel yet anyway

[@WeirdExplorer]

Ren and Stimpy already did it

[@moayadmyro2091]

Can i ask you to add more detial about the fruit tree how it look like and more small info

[@maincoon6602]

Great video 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻.

[@wethetreeple3661]

first time ever hearing about eugenia fruit. thanks :)

[@cerverg]

Eugenia is not one fruit. It's like calling all stone fruits (plums,apricots,peaches..) just one fruit (Prunus)

[@bconsilio3764]

What is the best way to describe the funk and roughness ?. Gasoline favor does not help as I can’t relate that to food.

[@kir2847]

Intro footage is only NY State or US in general?

[@WeirdExplorer]

Its several states in the US. New York. Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa and a few others probably

[@thedomestead3546]

Idea for another show/Sumer Vacation. In Bozeman, Mt. there are some hikes outside town that have 3 or 4 types of Pacific North West berries. Mountain Huckleberry, blueberry, gooseberries and wild mountain strawberries. I've tried all of these and they have concentrated fruit candy flavors. Also close to Cherry growers. Keep making those Videos, we will keep watching.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Thanks for the tip. I'm eager to try some of the PNW berries, the way people talk about them it seems like you have to have to know the right people to find these top secret locations.

[@thedomestead3546]

Palisade Falls trail, Hyalyte Lake Bozeman, Mt. that's where they're at.

[@kourakis]

Beyond racism, this is speciesism -judging as 'weird' any individuals not conforming to one's Fruitworldview. Actually, this was a good vid. These fruits and others of Eugenia genus are delicious, in Brazil people enjoy them straight off the tree; try grumixama and uvaia as well. I wonder how to cross these species and varietals to develop new fruits.

[@oldkingcrow777]

It's a shame that the joke sentence can be taken seriously now a days 🤣 We have our own "weird" fruits that are native and still seen as strange. But the fruit justice warriors don't care about that

[@kourakis]

@@oldkingcrow777 FJWs -that was good. lol

[@pn3940]

where is Cherry of Barbados?

[@FaceEatingOwl]

Go buggy, go! 8:45 😂

[@prob8745]

You mentioned you don't grow fruit. If you're not planning to plant those seeds I'll cover shipping and give them a good home.

[@WeirdExplorer]

P Rob I send seeds to patreon supporters. So no worries these seeds didn't go to waste :)

[@zoieblaise7356]

Weird Explorer i badly need a seed too please i can send money to cover shipping costs thanks

[@marcosmusixpcmusicam]

Hi, didnt you tasted eugenia candolleana? it seems to be the best of the eugenias... I have just 1 tree 30cm tall, from seed from Oscar Jaitt

[@WeirdExplorer]

I haven't had that one yet! Hopefully I'll get my hands on some soon :)

[@anabolica7536]

lets collab, I live in westchester but ill come down to try some fruits

[@mchepen]

i have a little plant of this in my back yard! i hope it grows and gives fruits one day... im in argentina and this is from south brazil, it could work..

[@messeduphina566]

Hey please try Chaunsa Mango and Sindhrri Mango from Pakistan. I think you can find them at Pakistani/Indian market. Love!

[@hase.von.b]

Eugenia sounds really like saying Awheneeah. Here in north Argentina pitanga grows naturally. Saludos!

[@anthonyburke5656]

As much as I love your vlogs, I’m still waiting for your BOOK

[@yuantheawesomegamertag2355]

Wow New Video Awesome!

[@ben_mango]

great video

[@legalyzeit]

Flying Fox Fruits For The Win!!!

[@TheChenny73]

Marang...gasoline? Where the heck are you eating marang?

[@michaelcorrea1885]

Have you done Eugenia reinwardtiana aka Beach cherry?

[@griffinc3263]

He has

[@theinvincible7511]

Never mind sometimes i think whether you go to various your countries by your own expenses to get these fruits or its any company sponsored.??but not getting the point..!!😉😉

[@Squirrelbot1]

Check out the fruit

[@aldonunes4749]

Hello, from Brazil.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Hey Aldo!

[@Shanask487]

eugenia seeds are beautiful

[@mastalp01]

Eugenia is the family, the next term is the species name.

[@ahamoments132]

Myrtaceae is the family name, Eugenia is the genus, and the next name is the species :)

[@thezestypumpkin3202]

First

[@dungeonmonkey2495]

Try out the aus/pacific eugenia species also called a Cedar Bay cherry or Nioi (E. reinwardtiana)