All Eriobotrya species were quietly incorporated into the genus Rhaphiolepis in 2020. This one is now Rhaphiolepis deflexa. The usual loquat Eriobotrya japonica is now Rhaphiolepis bibas - finally expunging that embarassing clerical error by a botanist that meant a purely Chinese native plant was called japonica.
The redbud tree, Cercis canadensis, actually might be native to extreme southeastern Ontario but isn’t really a Canadian tree. (Edible flowers.) The pecan is Carya illinoinensis but Illinois is the northern end of its range and it’s too cold there to grow it commercially. Still, neither name is entirely inaccurate. Not surprising that some botanical names are…
Loquat is called nespolo in Italy. It's very common in the Tuscan countryside, everybody has a tree or two in their garden. I love it! I'll have to watch all of your videos 😊 Thank you!
I have been in Toscana for a year a long time ago, like an hour from Florence, in Incisa. Very beautiful and chill place, very picturesque mountainside!
Nespolo can also refer to medlar (nespolo europeo) as opposed to nespolo giapponese, which is loquat. The same naming convention exists in several other European languages - where the name for loquat translates to "Japanese medlar". They are not super closely related, though. Medlar usually grows further north in Europe (they need to be frost-struck in order to properly ripen).
Loquat trees are all over California as landscaping trees. Supposedly they go from seed to fruit in around 8 years. Many people just let the fruit fall on the ground and rot.
One of the great traits of Bronze loquat is that it ripens in the fall, unlike true loquats that ripen in the early spring. They are edible and there are 16 species in the genus that are all reported as edible. I like their flavor. They are a in rosaceae and have cyanide in their seeds, so don’t eat the seeds.
reminds me of a fruit we would call chinaberry. After the first frost the birds and squirrels would eat and act like they were drunk. some fall entertainment.
Just to restate the obvious for anyone who doesn't know, they aren't acting drunk, they are drunk! The fruit will ferment if left on the ground and produce alcohol. Not much, but most animals have a much lower tolerance for ethanol than humans do (Plus, you know, they are smaller in general). Humans and a few of our closest relatives like chimps and gorillas are able to metabolize ethanol way, way faster due to a mutation and thus it's a much less deadly poison than it can be to others.
Hello! Beautiful tree that I didn't know, after so much time working with landscaping. Some nurseryman must have it, here in Brazil. I will look. At least here, in the Southeast, loquat is very common and sub-spontaneous, almost invasive. It was brought by Portuguese and later by Japanese immigrants. Like in Portugal, the fruit is called "nêspera". It is dispersed by people, but mainly by bats. The fruits of these plants that "appear" are small and acidic, but plentiful and edible. Big, sweet fruits like the one you ate in the video are always from grafted plants. And the similarity in flavor with the apple is not for nothing, they are from the same subfamily, within the Rosaceae. THANK YOU for this video!
I live where some people have loquat trees in their front yard and I've never thought twice about grabbing a few and snacking on them when they're ripe, and they've never made me sick. I do wash them since front yards tend to get smothered in pesticide.
Florida? Haha. I lived in Florida for a while, NO ONE knew they were edible and I got to enjoy them, usually not even the owners know they are edible so don’t have any problems with you asking to pick them… but they grow in public places down there as well. I do miss them. They do not grow where I live now. They’re absolutely delicious, you won’t be disappointed.
yeah this was an easy way to get in trouble as a kid in florida. Especially when you get a little too industrious and bring a ladder and a bunch of buckets
@@homelessrobot This reminds me of a Don Martin (Mad Magazine) cartoon. A woman lets a hobo pick apples from her tree. He sells them downtown in bags to a man who brings them home to his family and is greeted with joy. The same family that let the guy pick the apples.
I found a ton of edu sites saying you can eat it and that birds and small animals love it. But that it’s not one to grow if you want the fruit due to the small size of it.
had these trees all over where i used to live we used to just pick em and eat em while walking for a lil energy/hydration boost, i would recommend them to anyone just make sure you know its the right fruit and dont eat anything poisonous yall XD
I always see the yelow-orange loquats with smooth skin in your videos about the usual loquat, in Venezuela our loquats are always brown and rough skin, I wonder if it's a different cultivar in the caribbean or south america and if it tastes different, we call it níspero.
The same Spanish name is used for medlar, Mespilus germanica, which is brown and must be bletted (ripened to mush off the tree, like an astringent persimmon). However that is a "European" tree (though the center of genetic diversity seems to be in the Caucasus, so it may have just been an early arrival in Europe) and probably wants a longer winter than would be typical in your country. I wonder if what you have is actually a native (or at least neotropical) species that early Spanaird explorers/colonists simply named after the medlars already familiar to them, because of some resemblance in the fruit and/or tree (like they did with loquats when they were imported from East Asia), kinda like the way Romans were calling peaches, "apples of Persia" (W. China, actually, but came to the Romans via Persia).
@@erikjohnson9223 no it is not a medlar, but I just looked it up it's not a loquat! All this time thinking it was one, it looks so similar, but what I ate all my life turns out to be Manilkara zapota, a relative of the zapote, which doesn't fully surprise me but the thing I always ate had incredibly soft fibers while the zapote I grew up with had very tough ones.
It is hilarious what websites will claim is inedible. Where I'm from those were made into wine, didn't even seed them. I also have a jar of sweet autumn clematis buds fermenting into "capers" on my counter right now but guess what the internet says about it? Oh well, more food for me!
I have a book called Florida's Fabulous Trees and there's an ornamental tree listed where it says the fruit is inedible, i.e. woody. I took this to mean you can eat it, it won't hurt you, but it will be unpleasant, and your body will have very little ability to get any nutrition out of it. I don't know if that's the common botanical meaning of inedible but it seems to be the case for that book.
Crikey mate in OZ (Australia) we don’t pronounce this fruit as low-quat. We sat Lo- Kit, like the grasshopper. That’s ok how ever different countries what to pronounce things. When I was a child in the late 60’s and early 70’s we had two huge loquat trees. Used to eats lots and lots of them. The best part for me, was I had 5 sisters and we used to tease each other. I leant with deadly accuracy to squeeze the seed between my thumb and index finger to shoot the seed at my sisters to annoy them. I could hit a fly at at 10 feet almost every time. The sad thing is I haven’t had a this fruit in over 40 years. I love to try some and shoot the seed again. Memories.
@Shasen589 I live in SA and have only ever heard them called " low-cuts". I was today years old when I found out other people don't pronounce it this way. I am over 50 and have only ever eaten them from neighbours trees, especially as a kid.
I have the same experience with lots of fruit especially when they are also uses for landscaping and they slap inedible on everything and justify it by citing other such sites.
Yes, where I’m from there are so many ornamental plum and cherry trees and no one eats the fruit. They aren’t as tasty as other varieties, but they’ve never made me sick. People even refer to the plum trees as cherry blossoms. They don’t know what they’re talking about haha
A classic XKCD came up with the term "Citogensis" to describe how this circular citation storm works haha. It really is sad, but understandable. I'm guessing it just works like this: Traditionally the plant is just used for ornamentation, not consumption. Someone is told that those fruit aren't for eating. Instead of checking, it's just much easier to put inedible in a description since you were told it isn't for eating. Then citogenesis takes over and people refer back to that one listing of inedible and it spreads from there until everyone just knows its inedible and there are a ton of sources...that all go back to the one bad source.
@@blackmberCherry's , or cherry plums . Similar size of fruit , between the two . The cherry plumb is most definitely plumb - certain native birds eat them whole . Wild cherrys are also here , though very tart and small .
Love loquat, found them everywhere in Europe this spring, it is marginally hardy in the West Coast of Canada. Such a beautiful tree and fruit is so good!!
There’s so much that’s great about this video. Interesting about the leaf coloring and the language barrier in researching it, but I definitely get the most kick out of the questionable edibility. No doubt if something is somewhat edible for some people, you personally will be just fine eating a little given your experience.
I have a loquat in my front yard and I love eating them just out of the tree sad the snow storm came in few years ago and it didn't produce fruit for a long time
Wow! They really look like large, very ripe, rose hips on the outside in these pictures. Rose hips are *kinda* inedible too because they can be eaten, it just takes waaaay more calories than it gives in order to isolate the minuscule edible part of them!
Botanical resources often say things are inedible without going into specifics. Inedible doesn't strictly mean impossible to eat, it means everything from unpleasant to eat to downright poisonous. Most resources will usually specify if something is actually toxic, but inedible can be seen more as a general pointer to do some checking before you chow down. There's a lot of plants that were traditionally eaten that all now are considered inedible but aren't actually dangerous to eat.
I grew a few of these trees over last winter. Sold all of them back in April. It's better used as an ornamental than as an edible, so unless it has something else to make it stand out, i can't really spare the space for it in my collection. They grow fast, andveasily, though.
Dude when we were kids, we found a loquat tree in the neighborhood and once we figured out they were edible we spent a few hours eating as many as we could and we were heeked ever since. I would love to try the bronze loquat!
as a Chinese, I can confirm that yes, it is edible. just too small and as a result, doesn't compare to the common Loquat on the market, that is huge, pretty, and fancy bright yellow color, but almost flavorless. I prefer small old time Loquat, which is full of flavor
The forager problem of so many sources conflating "not especially palatable" and "toxic" both with "inedible." I was definitely coming up against this researching some viburnum this week.
Loquats are my favorite fruit! Although I've never had a fresh ripe mangosteen, if it's as good as you describe it, that will probably be my new favorite if I ever get to try it lol
If you have time... England's Orchards in KY is having an orchard tasting even with various fruits. Would love to see your thoughts on all the different varieties of in season at the time.
There is something called 'coppertone loquat' that is a hawthorn hybrid, but it has pink flowers and supposedly doesn't produce fruit at all. But search results were varied so I don't know how much to believe.
here in Israel, the normal Loquats are often "street trees" for ornamentation. not sure about the exact variety, but it looks the most similar to the ones you got from Portugal. these trees are all over the place.
Ingestion of crabapples has been listed as a cause of death based on the deceased’s stomach contents including crabapples. Plants reported as poisonous may not be. Often there is no toxicological study found to support the claim.
I have not has a loquat sine the 80s They grew in and around Fresno California and we moved away to a drier climate in Southern California and they don't grew there. I almost order some for $40 lbs my sister and I but we never did we were scared they wouldn't make it here to NJ where I live now
There are a ton of mushrooms that are labeled inedible but not because they are toxic/poisonous but just because they are not paladable. So this totally makes sense to me.
Ate a lot of these as a kid at my grandparents house, they had a tree growing right by their porch. They were very tasty but they were super perishable unfortunately. Kinda wish I had tried to cultivate a seed!
Protip for Weird Explorer here: edible plants often have more than one edible part (yes, this includes the tomato leaves & stems, pepper ones, & even eggplant leaves, to name a few)
That's not a good tip. Most fruit tree leaves are too tough and acrid to be considered edible. Furthermore there are a couple edible plants that has parts that simply should not be eaten. Mango and taro leaves contain irritants. Pineapple and pitaya plants are thorny. Papaya leaf is very bitter. Potato plant is straight up toxic. When it comes to edibility, "often" is not good enough.
For the taro leaves & possibly mango leaves, they are cooked down for the purpose of edibility, & I wasn't just talking about for food & drink uses. See passion fruit leaf uses & apple leaf uses as examples. Also, the rule of thumb wouldn't be limited to edible plants, but ones used for other than food & drink uses would often have other usable parts (even if in other ways). We should encourage root to leaf plant uses (& mycelium to spore fungus uses) in an akin way to nose to tail animal uses, after all
@@tktyga77 Imagine uprooting an apple tree that have grown for decades just to use its root with questionable edibility... No. Many plants are perennial and you should only be harvesting the edible part while leaving the rest to live on. The seeds and spores especially should be left alone so that they can reproduce.
Lol why on earth a loquat would be inedible... I had many variations of those as a kid that growed up in the countryside of Peru. It's very tasty and easy to eat on the go.
They need to do more research before labeling something wrong 🙄 it literally took nothing at all, but to taste it to figure it out. Thank you for revealing the truth and digging deeper than those Americans did.
@@cot2935 the fruit of the tree formerly known as Sorbus torminalis, now Torminalis glaberrima? Ah, no it actually seems to be Cormus domestica, a related tree (used to be known as Sorbus domestica).
@@WeirdExplorer no, its loquat. we dry many different types of fruits like these to use in soups and other dishes, jujube is just one of the types. go to a chinese medicine store in China and they will likely have a pack of these things somewhere in the cabinets since they're not that popular
I ate some of these at a park in Florida and got sick, but it may have been due to picking them off the ground. Nothing else has made me sick like that.
Yeah never eat fruit off the ground, you have no idea how long it has been there and what bacteria and funguses are growing in it. It's almost certainly the bacteria that made you ill not the fruit.
Had the normal yellow loquats in Hong Kong but I was not impressed; too much hassle for a tiny bit of flesh and taste is nothing special.😅 Gimme the lychee anytime🤤
I used to always eat apple seeds as a child, because for some reason I wanted a tree to grow inside me. I hadn't quite thought that through but I liked trees and thought it sounded cool.
The seeds contain amygdalin, a cyanogenic glycoside and not cyanide itself. If you swallow them whole and not chew them up, you should be fine as long as you don't eat buckets of them.
@@philipilgen7653 I ate a ton of apple seeds in my life and I especially like chewing the seeds. They taste sort of like almonds. I just like the flavor. Speaking of almonds. I like them too and as a child my mum would warn me not to eat a bunch of these. So I did and felt instantly sick and had to puke. What I suspect is, that they contain much more amygdalin than apple seeds [per mass].
@@feministpicnicfallsapartaf3644 I thought for a second that you were about to tell him that he'd need to eat 20-40 apples worth of seeds to have a tree growing inside of him. lol
I like how you wore a skull and crossbones shirt while tasting a fruit deemed by some to be inedible.
The first stage has been passed, edibility. The next step must come, ketchupability.
Juiceability first, and then ketchupability. I guess 😂
After that, Will It Hollandaise?
All Eriobotrya species were quietly incorporated into the genus Rhaphiolepis in 2020. This one is now Rhaphiolepis deflexa. The usual loquat Eriobotrya japonica is now Rhaphiolepis bibas - finally expunging that embarassing clerical error by a botanist that meant a purely Chinese native plant was called japonica.
The redbud tree, Cercis canadensis, actually might be native to extreme southeastern Ontario but isn’t really a Canadian tree. (Edible flowers.) The pecan is Carya illinoinensis but Illinois is the northern end of its range and it’s too cold there to grow it commercially. Still, neither name is entirely inaccurate. Not surprising that some botanical names are…
Loquat is called nespolo in Italy. It's very common in the Tuscan countryside, everybody has a tree or two in their garden. I love it! I'll have to watch all of your videos 😊 Thank you!
Nisparo in Spanish
Hard to find nowadays
I have been in Toscana for a year a long time ago, like an hour from Florence, in Incisa. Very beautiful and chill place, very picturesque mountainside!
In Spanish it's níspero/nisporo. My grandpa was Italian and had a loquat tree in his backyard in Argentina (my country) :)
@@kavorkaathey grow everywhere in the southern US
Nespolo can also refer to medlar (nespolo europeo) as opposed to nespolo giapponese, which is loquat. The same naming convention exists in several other European languages - where the name for loquat translates to "Japanese medlar". They are not super closely related, though. Medlar usually grows further north in Europe (they need to be frost-struck in order to properly ripen).
Loquat trees are all over California as landscaping trees. Supposedly they go from seed to fruit in around 8 years. Many people just let the fruit fall on the ground and rot.
As a Californian, that is stupid. A good ripe loquat is the thing I covet the most around springtime.
One of the great traits of Bronze loquat is that it ripens in the fall, unlike true loquats that ripen in the early spring. They are edible and there are 16 species in the genus that are all reported as edible. I like their flavor. They are a in rosaceae and have cyanide in their seeds, so don’t eat the seeds.
reminds me of a fruit we would call chinaberry. After the first frost the birds and squirrels would eat and act like they were drunk. some fall entertainment.
Just to restate the obvious for anyone who doesn't know, they aren't acting drunk, they are drunk! The fruit will ferment if left on the ground and produce alcohol. Not much, but most animals have a much lower tolerance for ethanol than humans do (Plus, you know, they are smaller in general). Humans and a few of our closest relatives like chimps and gorillas are able to metabolize ethanol way, way faster due to a mutation and thus it's a much less deadly poison than it can be to others.
I think he's got an episode on them too
Hello! Beautiful tree that I didn't know, after so much time working with landscaping. Some nurseryman must have it, here in Brazil. I will look.
At least here, in the Southeast, loquat is very common and sub-spontaneous, almost invasive. It was brought by Portuguese and later by Japanese immigrants. Like in Portugal, the fruit is called "nêspera". It is dispersed by people, but mainly by bats. The fruits of these plants that "appear" are small and acidic, but plentiful and edible. Big, sweet fruits like the one you ate in the video are always from grafted plants. And the similarity in flavor with the apple is not for nothing, they are from the same subfamily, within the Rosaceae.
THANK YOU for this video!
I live where some people have loquat trees in their front yard and I've never thought twice about grabbing a few and snacking on them when they're ripe, and they've never made me sick. I do wash them since front yards tend to get smothered in pesticide.
Florida? Haha. I lived in Florida for a while, NO ONE knew they were edible and I got to enjoy them, usually not even the owners know they are edible so don’t have any problems with you asking to pick them… but they grow in public places down there as well. I do miss them. They do not grow where I live now. They’re absolutely delicious, you won’t be disappointed.
I lived in San Diego as a child and my neighbor had a cumquat tree. I would climb the fence and eat them whole without peeling.
yeah this was an easy way to get in trouble as a kid in florida. Especially when you get a little too industrious and bring a ladder and a bunch of buckets
@@homelessrobot This reminds me of a Don Martin (Mad Magazine) cartoon. A woman lets a hobo pick apples from her tree. He sells them downtown in bags to a man who brings them home to his family and is greeted with joy. The same family that let the guy pick the apples.
@@homelessrobot this is how I leaned to always ask permission…or just go to a public park 😆
Love the skull and crossbones shirt brother! Very applicable when tasting an “inedible” fruit! YAY!
Thank you for mentioning that you spit the seeds out. I was worried about you for a minute
He was wearing the perfect shirt to die from poisoning in though
Just because he said that it was easy enough to spit the seeds out doesn't mean he did
The amygdalin in loquat seeds is also present in almonds, peaches, plums, etc. A lesser quantity is found in the leaves and roots.
I found a ton of edu sites saying you can eat it and that birds and small animals love it. But that it’s not one to grow if you want the fruit due to the small size of it.
had these trees all over where i used to live we used to just pick em and eat em while walking for a lil energy/hydration boost, i would recommend them to anyone just make sure you know its the right fruit and dont eat anything poisonous yall XD
Appreciate the skull t-shirt while doing consuming of apparent questionable toxicity.
I always see the yelow-orange loquats with smooth skin in your videos about the usual loquat, in Venezuela our loquats are always brown and rough skin, I wonder if it's a different cultivar in the caribbean or south america and if it tastes different, we call it níspero.
I wonder?
@@applegal3058 what's your question?
The same Spanish name is used for medlar, Mespilus germanica, which is brown and must be bletted (ripened to mush off the tree, like an astringent persimmon). However that is a "European" tree (though the center of genetic diversity seems to be in the Caucasus, so it may have just been an early arrival in Europe) and probably wants a longer winter than would be typical in your country. I wonder if what you have is actually a native (or at least neotropical) species that early Spanaird explorers/colonists simply named after the medlars already familiar to them, because of some resemblance in the fruit and/or tree (like they did with loquats when they were imported from East Asia), kinda like the way Romans were calling peaches, "apples of Persia" (W. China, actually, but came to the Romans via Persia).
@@erikjohnson9223 no it is not a medlar, but I just looked it up it's not a loquat!
All this time thinking it was one, it looks so similar, but what I ate all my life turns out to be Manilkara zapota, a relative of the zapote, which doesn't fully surprise me but the thing I always ate had incredibly soft fibers while the zapote I grew up with had very tough ones.
It is hilarious what websites will claim is inedible. Where I'm from those were made into wine, didn't even seed them. I also have a jar of sweet autumn clematis buds fermenting into "capers" on my counter right now but guess what the internet says about it? Oh well, more food for me!
I have a book called Florida's Fabulous Trees and there's an ornamental tree listed where it says the fruit is inedible, i.e. woody. I took this to mean you can eat it, it won't hurt you, but it will be unpleasant, and your body will have very little ability to get any nutrition out of it. I don't know if that's the common botanical meaning of inedible but it seems to be the case for that book.
Crikey mate in OZ (Australia) we don’t pronounce this fruit as low-quat. We sat Lo- Kit, like the grasshopper. That’s ok how ever different countries what to pronounce things. When I was a child in the late 60’s and early 70’s we had two huge loquat trees. Used to eats lots and lots of them. The best part for me, was I had 5 sisters and we used to tease each other. I leant with deadly accuracy to squeeze the seed between my thumb and index finger to shoot the seed at my sisters to annoy them. I could hit a fly at at 10 feet almost every time. The sad thing is I haven’t had a this fruit in over 40 years. I love to try some and shoot the seed again. Memories.
In which part of Australia do people pronounce Loquats as Lokits? I have been in SA and VIC, people call it Loquats as in the video.
@@Shasen589 Queensland
@Shasen589 I live in SA and have only ever heard them called " low-cuts". I was today years old when I found out other people don't pronounce it this way. I am over 50 and have only ever eaten them from neighbours trees, especially as a kid.
This is the most australian thing I've ever heard. Good on you! That sounds like a great childhood, and it was nice to read about.
I have the same experience with lots of fruit especially when they are also uses for landscaping and they slap inedible on everything and justify it by citing other such sites.
Yes, where I’m from there are so many ornamental plum and cherry trees and no one eats the fruit. They aren’t as tasty as other varieties, but they’ve never made me sick. People even refer to the plum trees as cherry blossoms. They don’t know what they’re talking about haha
A classic XKCD came up with the term "Citogensis" to describe how this circular citation storm works haha. It really is sad, but understandable. I'm guessing it just works like this: Traditionally the plant is just used for ornamentation, not consumption. Someone is told that those fruit aren't for eating. Instead of checking, it's just much easier to put inedible in a description since you were told it isn't for eating. Then citogenesis takes over and people refer back to that one listing of inedible and it spreads from there until everyone just knows its inedible and there are a ton of sources...that all go back to the one bad source.
@@blackmberCherry's , or cherry plums . Similar size of fruit , between the two .
The cherry plumb is most definitely plumb - certain native birds eat them whole .
Wild cherrys are also here , though very tart and small .
Love loquat, found them everywhere in Europe this spring, it is marginally hardy in the West Coast of Canada. Such a beautiful tree and fruit is so good!!
There’s so much that’s great about this video. Interesting about the leaf coloring and the language barrier in researching it, but I definitely get the most kick out of the questionable edibility.
No doubt if something is somewhat edible for some people, you personally will be just fine eating a little given your experience.
I love that you are still using the sweet/tart scales. Such a good graphic.
Loguat Ketchup
Will it ketchup?
I ate many loquats when I lived in the subtropics (Tampa & Houston), but I never peeled one. It's completely unecessary.
Loquats are delicious. Their only trouble for being more "famous" is that they are very delicate.
I have a loquat in my front yard and I love eating them just out of the tree sad the snow storm came in few years ago and it didn't produce fruit for a long time
Awesome vid, love learing bout new fruits!!🤙
Wow! They really look like large, very ripe, rose hips on the outside in these pictures. Rose hips are *kinda* inedible too because they can be eaten, it just takes waaaay more calories than it gives in order to isolate the minuscule edible part of them!
Botanical resources often say things are inedible without going into specifics. Inedible doesn't strictly mean impossible to eat, it means everything from unpleasant to eat to downright poisonous. Most resources will usually specify if something is actually toxic, but inedible can be seen more as a general pointer to do some checking before you chow down.
There's a lot of plants that were traditionally eaten that all now are considered inedible but aren't actually dangerous to eat.
Yes! Another upload to grace my Sunday morning❤
Nope.
@@UlnvtcydrYep.
100% expected you to pull out a “hi-quat” after hyping the loquat that hard
I grew a few of these trees over last winter. Sold all of them back in April. It's better used as an ornamental than as an edible, so unless it has something else to make it stand out, i can't really spare the space for it in my collection. They grow fast, andveasily, though.
Dude when we were kids, we found a loquat tree in the neighborhood and once we figured out they were edible we spent a few hours eating as many as we could and we were heeked ever since. I would love to try the bronze loquat!
as a Chinese, I can confirm that yes, it is edible. just too small and as a result, doesn't compare to the common Loquat on the market, that is huge, pretty, and fancy bright yellow color, but almost flavorless.
I prefer small old time Loquat, which is full of flavor
Jarad, I love your thoroughness! Kudos to you!
The forager problem of so many sources conflating "not especially palatable" and "toxic" both with "inedible." I was definitely coming up against this researching some viburnum this week.
cinnamon apple, maybe somewhat mulled, but less sweet, perhaps or perhaps not with added freshness/crunch, would be good :)
Reminds me of rosehip just abit
I think that as a common ornamental there would probably be some recorded cases of people getting sick from it if there was any real cause for alarm.
We once made a loquot cobbler and it uh, was pretty danged good. Love that fruit. Hope ill find a bronze loquot someday
Loquats are my favorite fruit! Although I've never had a fresh ripe mangosteen, if it's as good as you describe it, that will probably be my new favorite if I ever get to try it lol
If you have time... England's Orchards in KY is having an orchard tasting even with various fruits. Would love to see your thoughts on all the different varieties of in season at the time.
cooking them down, after removing seeds, may be a good source of pectin for making jam, jelly, etc.
When i had a loquat i thought it was very similar to the stone fruits, something between an apricot and a plum
Time for a new series - "Will it kill me?" Trying fruits that may or may not be poisonous to see what effect they have
From what I've read, these are a hybrid with the Indian Hawthorn, which can be toxic raw. So it probably inherited that.
There is something called 'coppertone loquat' that is a hawthorn hybrid, but it has pink flowers and supposedly doesn't produce fruit at all. But search results were varied so I don't know how much to believe.
@@captsorghum I'm not totally sure, either.
We just pronounce them "locats" here. Those ones are pretty small compared to ones I've see here 🇦🇺.
here in Israel, the normal Loquats are often "street trees" for ornamentation. not sure about the exact variety, but it looks the most similar to the ones you got from Portugal.
these trees are all over the place.
they are delicious, fresh and juicy, but they do not last for a long period of time on the tree so when you see them grab some and enjoy
perfect shirt for the occasion
If this has the taste of an apple, I wonder if you could make a pie out of it?
In Algeria we call it, za3rour the weird 3 in the middle is a double AA zaa -arour
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Ingestion of crabapples has been listed as a cause of death based on the deceased’s stomach contents including crabapples. Plants reported as poisonous may not be. Often there is no toxicological study found to support the claim.
I ate crabapples as a child.
Jared, at times you're a madman XD.
I have not has a loquat sine the 80s They grew in and around Fresno California and we moved away to a drier climate in Southern California and they don't grew there. I almost order some for $40 lbs my sister and I but we never did we were scared they wouldn't make it here to NJ where I live now
The California Coffeeberry (Frangula californica) around here has ripe berries. Want me to send you some for a video??
I’m Loki loquat jelly of you tryin’ all these ultra-exotic fruit. I love loquat aka nispero. Amitābh
There are a ton of mushrooms that are labeled inedible but not because they are toxic/poisonous but just because they are not paladable. So this totally makes sense to me.
Ate a lot of these as a kid at my grandparents house, they had a tree growing right by their porch. They were very tasty but they were super perishable unfortunately. Kinda wish I had tried to cultivate a seed!
Loquacious regarding loquats
I really like the funky electric organ in the beginning of these videos, reminds me of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Circus music maybe? 🤔
Fine research effort!
"No, don't eat it."
"Loquat you made me do." *eats it*
Great video.
Shabriri Grapes huh, I've heard they are dangerous.
The Explorer Who Lived! (in spite of his skull & crossbones t-shirt) Yay!
They are delicious
9:09 imho somebody said it s unedible and ppl just followed.
Will it ketchup?
It sure's Edible, Jared still not die. 😆
Protip for Weird Explorer here: edible plants often have more than one edible part (yes, this includes the tomato leaves & stems, pepper ones, & even eggplant leaves, to name a few)
That's not a good tip. Most fruit tree leaves are too tough and acrid to be considered edible. Furthermore there are a couple edible plants that has parts that simply should not be eaten. Mango and taro leaves contain irritants. Pineapple and pitaya plants are thorny. Papaya leaf is very bitter. Potato plant is straight up toxic. When it comes to edibility, "often" is not good enough.
For the taro leaves & possibly mango leaves, they are cooked down for the purpose of edibility, & I wasn't just talking about for food & drink uses. See passion fruit leaf uses & apple leaf uses as examples. Also, the rule of thumb wouldn't be limited to edible plants, but ones used for other than food & drink uses would often have other usable parts (even if in other ways). We should encourage root to leaf plant uses (& mycelium to spore fungus uses) in an akin way to nose to tail animal uses, after all
@@tktyga77 Imagine uprooting an apple tree that have grown for decades just to use its root with questionable edibility... No. Many plants are perennial and you should only be harvesting the edible part while leaving the rest to live on. The seeds and spores especially should be left alone so that they can reproduce.
He's aware of this, and has explored those in the past.
Silver Hyquat is vastly preferable
People also say the same thing about ornamental peppers just because they're hot lol
He will be missed...
I’m a big fan of loquats. 😬
Lol why on earth a loquat would be inedible... I had many variations of those as a kid that growed up in the countryside of Peru. It's very tasty and easy to eat on the go.
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They need to do more research before labeling something wrong 🙄 it literally took nothing at all, but to taste it to figure it out. Thank you for revealing the truth and digging deeper than those Americans did.
Wow, pretty neat
Bro you gotta update ur website it only goes to episode 682
You have to try what we call sorbi
Is that Italian? I think it is called "rowan"/"rowan berry" in english. He has done it before.
Azarole?
@@TheUnnamedGent oh i have to check. Yes It's italian
@@alexmckee4683 ok i checked, It's neither rowan Berry, nor azarole
@@cot2935 the fruit of the tree formerly known as Sorbus torminalis, now Torminalis glaberrima? Ah, no it actually seems to be Cormus domestica, a related tree (used to be known as Sorbus domestica).
From the thumbnail I thought it was a nightshade berry.
My guess is that we've been lied to about this particular loquat variety by people that want to keep them all to themselves. 😆
I wonder if the seeds are better than the normal loquat or have any use like the loquat.
Imagine, a couple days later, he drops dead in the Yamcha death pose with those fruit clutched tightly in his hands. :u
not sure why someone would say its bad to eat, but in china, they dry this and use it in soup and such
that's jujube 🙂
@@WeirdExplorer no, its loquat. we dry many different types of fruits like these to use in soups and other dishes, jujube is just one of the types. go to a chinese medicine store in China and they will likely have a pack of these things somewhere in the cabinets since they're not that popular
People say you shouldn't do a lot of things. Thanks for not listening!
Please don't send me your bank account and all your personal details, really don't, I mean it.
@@poputchik4910 That's just dumb. Poputchik, indeed.
I suspect they are from the same family as apples, and like apples - the seeds contain cyanide.
In China do a lot of things.
I ate some of these at a park in Florida and got sick, but it may have been due to picking them off the ground.
Nothing else has made me sick like that.
don't eat fruit off the ground!!! smh
Yeah never eat fruit off the ground, you have no idea how long it has been there and what bacteria and funguses are growing in it. It's almost certainly the bacteria that made you ill not the fruit.
I called them turd friggers as a child because they smelled like what id imagine a turd frigger to be.
MAKE JELLY!!!!
Had the normal yellow loquats in Hong Kong but I was not impressed; too much hassle for a tiny bit of flesh and taste is nothing special.😅 Gimme the lychee anytime🤤
I thought apple seeds have cyanide in them, we are smart enough to not eat those.
I used to always eat apple seeds as a child, because for some reason I wanted a tree to grow inside me. I hadn't quite thought that through but I liked trees and thought it sounded cool.
@@dfpguitaryou'd need about 20 - 40 apples worth of seeds to die from the cyanide with the amount apple seeds contain. Dont worry lmao
The seeds contain amygdalin, a cyanogenic glycoside and not cyanide itself. If you swallow them whole and not chew them up, you should be fine as long as you don't eat buckets of them.
@@philipilgen7653 I ate a ton of apple seeds in my life and I especially like chewing the seeds. They taste sort of like almonds. I just like the flavor. Speaking of almonds. I like them too and as a child my mum would warn me not to eat a bunch of these. So I did and felt instantly sick and had to puke. What I suspect is, that they contain much more amygdalin than apple seeds [per mass].
@@feministpicnicfallsapartaf3644 I thought for a second that you were about to tell him that he'd need to eat 20-40 apples worth of seeds to have a tree growing inside of him. lol
It's edible 🎉
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Long fingernails on dudes always really creeps me out…😂 love loquats though 😅
one might say that you have waxed loquacious about the loquat
American resources: "This fruit is difficult to get much edible matter off of therefore it is inedible"
Also American resources: "MMMMMM PORK RIBS"