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Have you ever had fruit from the Sal tree? Its very similar looking to the cannonball but the fruit has a reputation for smelling bad. What I was told when I was in Thailand Budda was born under a Sal tree.
The polysaccharides like Konjac / glucomannan / Elephant foot yam - like starch there is a chemical reaction btw acid base … forget now how to tackle this has been 15 years for me. Likewise many wild plants west sciencevsays dubious or poisonous if you parboil several times changing water and doing acid base it now edible .. Siberian and Far East Asian tribes even eat clay and charcoal to absorb toxins from some wild native foods…
I was thinking this was 1 of the most interesting fruits you've done, but the 1st time you went over it you said it was some old dino elephant that used to keep the plant alive
In the Fast forward of the fruit turning blue, you can see bugs getting close to the pulp but rapidly running away after inspecting it, now thats a scary fruit if bugs avoid it.
that could just be something the fruit has developed over time to keep pests away. im very curious t oknow more about why it turns blue and what exactly the burning is. i wonder if you can send it to a lab or something
I imagine that would be due to enzymes, terpenes, or metal oxides. The fact that it turns green and then blue suggests to me that there is ionic nickel and/or copper present in the flesh of the fruit. The nickel reacting faster, and the copper taking a little bit more time to create the blue hue in the mixture. The fact that bugs want to run away from the fruit suggests that something about it is irritating. Bugs can eat things that we can't. They are disturbed by things that disrupt digestive flora, because they rely on them for digestion of food. I'm guessing that there are proteolytic, cytotoxic, or neurotoxic chemicals in the fruit pulp. Possibly a receptor-blocking chemical. Maybe in the kinesthetic communication channel, hence a lack of feeling in general, causing numbness.
it could be variegatic acid. usually when you cut open scarletina bolete mushrooms they also turn into this blueish color and in their case its due to variegatic acid. it looks almost the same so maybe the cannonball fruit also contains variegatic acid which is btw not toxic to humans
@@emberframe6994 Copper turns both greenish and bluish colors, so if it's a single substance causing all of these effects, I would have to say that copper is most likely (in my mind).
I love the cannonball fruit but you have to prepare it proberly before you eat it. The first step invoves burying the fruit in a casing of sea salt to draw out the bitter compounds over several days. Once it's done you need to wash the fruit and then heat it up really fast before you toss it with some sugar. Then let it cool and eat the deliciousness that is the cannonball of all fruits.
A lot of plants dispersed by megafauna are ever so slightly toxic, since very large animals aren't harmed by the small amounts of toxic chemicals yet smaller animals which cannot properly disperse the seeds are. Some people argue that many Annonaceae fall under this phenomena, and some cucurbits are like this too. I imagine something similar is going on here, its probably ever so slightly toxic which isn't great if you aren't elephant sized.
That makes sense, unless of course the fruit is in season, and large amounts are consumed. But if the two species have already developed their relationship, the megafauna may also be more proficient in processing those toxins as well!
The subject about edible versus toxic is a really vexing one: A few kg of parsley kills a person, because parsley is toxic in large amounts. However 3 twigs of comfrey mixed with 1/2 kg of stinging nettles is wholesome. (Stinging nettles are an absolute SUPERFOOD.) And in times when people have foods from the supermarket which are sprayed and bathed in poison and declare them "edible" even though every now and then consumers die of strawberries (US recently) or tomatoes (Spain 10 yes ago) I find this attitude strange.
I have Asimina triloba " Paw paws" fruiting in my yard. They're supposedly an achronism type fruit. We eat them. The leaves however smell like petroleum.
I read into it, and yeah, the fruit is indeed eaten and animals smaller than elephants like them also. So, it's more likely that allergy is causing the burning rather than it actually being toxic in any way.
Amazing coincidence, I'm such a botanical/chemistry geek I was just reading about this plant and its family at wikipedia. It's a source of a dye called Isatin.
Isatin is chimically linked with indigo. In France, in the middle ages, the region of the city of Albi, in the Southwest, was famous for the cultivation of a plant (scientific name Isatis Tinctoria) which produces a prestigious blue dye called pastel (which was used for the royal garments).
Since it turns greenish blue, I wonder if it has sort of copper compound in it. It's really strange. I would love to see a chemical analysis of the fruit to find out where the burning is coming from
yes indeed copper like apples have iron this fruit lives off of copper rich soil and or mix of both silver and copper this would do good in Cerro Gordo in a green house there.
The blue oxidation reminds me more of something cyanogenic. I don’t see how a plant would have so much copper to turn that blue that fast, but plants are very good at making gyanogenic glycosides. So I’m thinking cyanide. Would also explain the burning sensation! Very bad idea to eat these if so!
Fruits borne on cauliflorous stolons never cease to look absolutely crazy. Ground figs are another fun one, and sometimes the stolons grow underground along with the fruit (which gives rise to their name of ground figs). Some Baccaurea species are like this too. I know there's a lot more like this that I don't know off the top of my head. An entire garden of such plants would be hilarious.
Ficus Geocarpa - Ground Fig Another trippy looking one is Ficus Sur - Cape Fig *Be prepared for entries on Ficus Microcarpa to dominate any search attempt as it is a popular house plant/bonsai to grow, sell, buy, So more internet listings.
Your original cannonball fruit episode was so interesting to me. Plants are fascinating and I've only seen some mushrooms do this blue oxidation before, super cool to have it happen in a fruit too. Gotta love nature.
Orange peels can grow a blue-green mold. The thick rind and lobed fruit even reminds me of citrus in many ways, which certain types have acid so strong it will burn your mouth.
What you forgot to mention how strong yet sweet the flowers smell...you can smell them from hundred yards away...I used to have some happy childhood memories that were associated with that fragrance and these trees are kinda rare here now in India where I am from, so the memories came rushing back when I encountered that same fragrance at my Uni...there it was, a majestic Cannonball tree❤
@@unknownhours Pretty much all boletes are edible once cooked. To my knowledge there is one european variety that can cause intestinal discomfort but generally speaking, any mushroom that resembles a bolete with spongy gills is edible.
We used to have many of those trees ( planted by someone in the past) in my family’s vacation house here in Brazil when I was young. There is a perfume-like smell in the flowers that turn into a kind of a putrid smell and attracts many bugs, the balls are huge, heavy and might cause accidents when they fall. People always told me that they were inedible and poisonous though, so I never tried them.
I just googled the brazilian tree name “Abricó-de-macaco” and wikipedia says it’s native, originated in the amazon and adapted well to the south east where I live. This makes things really confusing as it looks exactly the same as the ones you show in the video.
@@alanelassad Should be the same plant. And it's not that strange, once people started sailing and moving stuff around there's been a fair amount of successful exchange of plants between southeast Asia and south/central America because of the not dissimilar weather. Think of how ubiquitous stuff like banana and mango are in Brazil even though both are native to tropical Asia.
The tree (Couroupita guianensis) is native to Central and South America. It was introduced to Asia by the British in the 19th century, and it has been misidentified as being a sacred tree from Buddhist scriptures as well as Hinduism. The Sal tree (which is native to India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Tibet and across the Himalayan regions) gets confused with the cannonball tree. Sal tree is Shorea robusta. Another that gets confused with this one is the Saraca asoca, Ashoka Tree. You can look it up better in Wikipedia, English version.
it look tasty when you open it up and cut it piece by piece before it turn blue. the misconception about Buddha is that some area called 2 different Sal tree using "Sal" tree but it actually from different Genus, Diptercaroaceae and Barringtoniaceae which has different leaves and flower.
Reminds me of the kentucky coffee tree, another evolutionary anachronism. I planted a few myself, and it took days of on and off soaking and filing to get through the shells on the seeds. They have the single most resilient material I've ever met. You already made a video on them, though. Always amazes me to see the variety of things you've documented here.
Cool video, i think the blue colour change is from the chemical indican oxidising into indigo from the atmosphere, would also explain the burning taste too. Indigo is fairly non toxic roughly 0.5% of your body mass to kill
@@WeirdExplorer The blue is indigo, indirubin and isatin - which are found in many unrelated plants, not just cabbages (woad) and peas (indigo, the plant not the chemical) but also relatives of Acanthus, Hoya and buckwheat. Analysis in "The structure and properties of some indolic constituents in Couroupita guianensis aubl". Tetrahedron 1985 These are pretty innocuous and not likely to be related to the burning sensation.
Been long awaiting your follow up review on this! Ever since your first review I have remembered 2 things about these. They turn blue and bring to mind Ralph from the Simpsons. (Tastes like burning)
I skipped this video yesterday, because I thought it was the old one. Great update! I loved the time lapse greening / bluing. I read that the burning means you are allergic, not everyone feels it. Please don't eat it any more. But thank you for tasting it again this time!
Very cool fruit. I think the VERY fast blue oxidation reaction when exposed to the air is as beautiful as it is concerning. I have no idea what compounds would make it do that but it’s not surprisingly it burns when you eat it. Very pretty though!!
The blue is indigo, indirubin and isatin - which are found in many unrelated plants, not just cabbages (woad) and peas (indigo, the plant not the chemical) but also relatives of Acanthus, Hoya and buckwheat. Analysis in "The structure and properties of some indolic constituents in Couroupita guianensis aubl". Tetrahedron 1985 These are pretty innocuous and not likely to be related to the burning sensation.
You should take a slice to a lab to get it tested. Also you should try scuppernong grapes, the skin can create a similar burning sensation but it's edible. I usually don't eat the skin but i like biting through it for the sour sweet contrast.
Take note of the little blobs that stay yellow inside of the parts of the flesh that turn blue. Maybe they are the part that is edible. Maybe those portions don't burn your insides. If so, this is a time-consuming fruit to eat, because you have to wait for the reaction to happen at least twice. Once after slicing in, and again after picking out the non-color-changing parts to make sure that no part of those chunks changes color.
I planted a couple of trees. One at my old high school and one in a traffic island. Nice fragrant flowers but I'd never try to taste it because the fruit has a very bad odor. Had to stand upwind to get the seeds to plant.
It is found in plenty in our sayaji park garden at vadodara the smell of its flowers is so intense that we can recognise it from 10 meters and small insects are on flowers It flowers in between winter and summer season.
This tree is called as Sal tree in India and the flower is called as shiva lingam and fruit is edible and contains sugar, gum, malic, citric and tartaric acids. Sal is a crucial plant for veterinary medicines (used as vaccine and medicine for respiratory diseases)
Couroupita guianensis, known by a variety of common names including cannonball tree,[3] is a deciduous tree in the flowering plant family Lecythidaceae. It is native to the tropical forests of Central and South America,[1] and it is cultivated in many other tropical areas throughout the world because of its beautiful, fragrant flowers and large, interesting fruits. Fruits are brownish grey.[4] There are potential medicinal uses for many parts of Couroupita guianensis,[5] and the tree has cultural and religious significance in India.[5] In Sri Lanka, the cannonball tree has been widely misidentified as Sal, after its introduction to the island by the British in 1881, and has been included as a common item in Buddhist temples as a result.[6] Description Couroupita guianensis is a tree that reaches heights of up to 35 m (110 ft).[7] The leaves, which occur in clusters at the ends of branches, are usually 8 to 31 centimeters (3 to 12 inches) long, but can reach lengths of up to 57 cm (22 in).[7]
Surreal watching this as I've been to that grove many times. This may be the best English-language record of the taste of these fruit so far. I feel like if these were secretly good there would be a cottage industry around them, although that dovetails with Monstera, another well-regarded fruit that can cause burning and bleeding when unripe. The poison in that one is calcium oxalate I think. I wouldn't dare impose it on you but I wonder if these have to be well overripe or even rotten to be edible, sort of like Shibugaki.
Thank you for introducing me in the new world of fruits ). And special thanks for selection of suitable "outer space music" in the end of episode ))) More such music in next your videos will be appreciated more.
This reminds of wood apple, at least the hard shell outside and similar looking inside except the color. I loved the chutney made out of it, almost tamarind like flavor.
Very interesting to see it again. Pineapple burns and does a bit of damage. It's always hard to gauge danger until a LOT of people have eaten it for a significant amount of time. Caution is fine, but curiosity is hard to kill.
2:34 No mister, Lord Buddha was not born under the cannonball tree, because being under the cannonball tree is dangerous. Because large fruits can fall to the ground. The cannon ball tree was not present in Nepal or India in Buddha's day, this plant was introduced from South American countries to Asian countries with the establishment of the East India Trading Company. It is now confirmed that the Buddha was born under the sal/sala tree. The scientific name of the sal plant is shorea robusta. This sal tree is a species of plant native to the northern Indian region such as Nepal. Even today, this sal tree can be seen around Lumbini. I don't know why people call the canon ball tree the tree where Buddha was born. nomo Buddhaya 🙏
yes..in sri lanka people misunderstood the cannon ball as the sal tree.even in buddhas temple wall painting they draw canon ball tree as sal tree, still misunderstanding here.
Every time you taste one of these “the internet says it’s edible” fruits I have to remind myself that you edited and posted this video so I know you survived 🤣
Hey Jared, thanks for this additional showcase of the cannonball fruit.Definitely not going to try this one although we have a few specimens here in Trinidad at some random locations.
I was just in Vietnam and was wondering about this fruit ! Thank you for answering my question . It is an incredible looking tree !love your show ! Thanks again !❤
Correction: Buddha could not have been born under a cannonball tree since it is native to central and South America and has only been brought to Asia as an ornamental tree in the past two centuries or so.
Buddha was born under a Sal tree, which is native to India, between the Himalayas and the indian Ocean. The Sal tree is twice as big as the Cannonball tree. It's mainly used for it's timber.
You are in Taiping, Perak, Malaysia. My home town. Tq for acknowledging the cannon ball tree... the flowers are beautiful... you know the fruit is not enjoyable cos no other animals eat it, even monkeys n squirrels n birds stay away from it.
Interesting revisit of this tree! I thought of you in Saigon a month or so ago when I saw these planted as street trees (What on earth were they thinking?!!) down in District 7. They were still somewhat small but already covered in fruits. The fallen flowers on the sidewalks were beautiful though. I was not tempted to eat the fruit. 😅
I'm so glad you put this up! We found some on the ground the other day and were trying to figure out whether it was edible or not! There's a tree at the church ground, hehe. No clouds of mosquitoes here.
Based on what I've read, although edible, if you have burning or tingling sensation it is either unripe (like the first one) or that you may be allergic to the fruit. It looks like it is used in some cultures medicinally, but you did the right thing by not eating it with the reaction. Thank you for all of your wonderful videos!
You might be onto something there. Maybe the burning is a food allergy? Jared, next time you get a sample, get a friend to taste it to compre notes. Also take the sample to an allergist and get tested, this could be a problem if you try a fruit you get a strong reaction to.
I've had one of your durian shirts for a few years, but the design is starting to peel and I was wondering if you had any new merch? Love your content!
Gautama Buddha was both born and died under Sal trees, Shorea robusta. The cannonball tree is native to South America an ocean away when Buddha was born.
I think the Cannonball fruit is edible the internet says the ripe fruit is edible (the unripe ones lead to allergic reactions somethimes) and not poisonous and gets commonly feed to pigs and other livestock so if it is safe to eat for pigs it is very ulikely that it would be poisonous for humans because pigs are omnivorous just like humans and in general quite similar to humans in a lot of ways.
we have 2 or 3 of these cannon ball trees in our botanical gardens in St. Vincent, the oldest botanical gardens in the western hemisphere. The plant is originally from Brazil
I'd love to see this fruit being better studied. Beyond that, I'd love to see it being cooked, having more things done with it. Also, you might just be allergic to it.
That is true. If it tastes like burning, that could be a food allergy. I’ve heard some people discovered they’re allergic to celery when they describe it as “spicy.”
What a wild looking tree and fruit, thank you, love learning from you. I think you really need a streaming show. Your research on each fruit you try is great too. Besides the information on your experience tasting these unusual fruits to us in the US and other countries. That avocado like slice was fascinating.
ahhh much like the Australian recipe for Parrot. put the parrot in a pot with three large rocks, and boil for three to four days. drain the water, toss the parrot and eat the rocks as theyre going to be more tender/tasty than the parrot
No, the Buddha born under Sal tree not cannonball tree. The cannonball tree is native to the tropical forests of Central and South America. It is introduction to Asia in the first time to Sri Lanka by the British in 1881. The cannonball tree has been widely misidentified as Sal tree which is sacred tree in Buddhism. Then it become another sacred tree in Buddhism after that.
Why does it weirdly remind me of an osage orange? But like the mushy tropical version. Similar seeds (kinda), nothing eats them minus extinct megafauna and they are horrible/unpleasant to eat 😂
I read an article in French which said it should only be eaten when ripe. It is rarely eaten by humans and in times of famine. Some villages add it to drinks for medicinal purposes. It is usually fed to pigs and chickens.
I've watched all the previous videos about it, kinda surprised of the return to "making things right" xD. Here in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil we have some of those around the city...sometimes next to homeless people, with top 3 kg a fruit and bearing so many them sounds like a potential good source of sustenance right? Well...I would like to discover a satisfactory way to eat this...
The sequel we didn't know we needed. Can't believe the thing is palatable when ripe! Oh, also, what's the song playing during the time-lapse? It sounds wonderful
In India there is a fruit called "bael", which similar to this kind, but smaller in size. The leaves and fruit both are used in Temples and the fruit consumed by humans.
In the northern coast of Jawa there are fruits they called Kawis that look exactly like this one from the outside but totally different from the inside. People use them to make syroop, since it tastes a bit alcoholic and rather weird if you eat it directly... Making them into syroop makes it taste more delicious
I wonder if they could be juiced. I have juiced peppervine berries, and that allows the calcium oxalate crystals to settle in the bottom, which is the burning irritant present in those. I wonder if it's the same compound here burning your mouth.
The species is from tropical south America. It was introduced to south east Asia by the British. They were probably planted in the temple yard because if the nice flower smell.
ive heard that this fruit can be allergenic. The burning could be because of an allergic reaction but in general yea it seems while edible this fruit isnt the tastiest choice
It is called NAGAMALLI tree in telugu. Its flower looks like the thousand headed serpent protecting the sivalingam. It has a sacred place in hindu mind. 5:04
The flowers of this tree are very fragrant. i was in the botanic garden howrah in the june 2022 and the fragrance of these flowers was radiating upto 10 meters, may be more.
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If humans have been cultivating it for millenia, it would make sense that the fruit is good for something besides novelty
Have you ever had fruit from the Sal tree? Its very similar looking to the cannonball but the fruit has a reputation for smelling bad. What I was told when I was in Thailand Budda was born under a Sal tree.
The polysaccharides like Konjac / glucomannan / Elephant foot yam - like starch there is a chemical reaction btw acid base … forget now how to tackle this has been 15 years for me. Likewise many wild plants west sciencevsays dubious or poisonous if you parboil several times changing water and doing acid base it now edible .. Siberian and Far East Asian tribes even eat clay and charcoal to absorb toxins from some wild native foods…
I was thinking this was 1 of the most interesting fruits you've done, but the 1st time you went over it you said it was some old dino elephant that used to keep the plant alive
In the Fast forward of the fruit turning blue, you can see bugs getting close to the pulp but rapidly running away after inspecting it, now thats a scary fruit if bugs avoid it.
that could just be something the fruit has developed over time to keep pests away. im very curious t oknow more about why it turns blue and what exactly the burning is. i wonder if you can send it to a lab or something
I imagine that would be due to enzymes, terpenes, or metal oxides. The fact that it turns green and then blue suggests to me that there is ionic nickel and/or copper present in the flesh of the fruit. The nickel reacting faster, and the copper taking a little bit more time to create the blue hue in the mixture. The fact that bugs want to run away from the fruit suggests that something about it is irritating. Bugs can eat things that we can't. They are disturbed by things that disrupt digestive flora, because they rely on them for digestion of food. I'm guessing that there are proteolytic, cytotoxic, or neurotoxic chemicals in the fruit pulp. Possibly a receptor-blocking chemical. Maybe in the kinesthetic communication channel, hence a lack of feeling in general, causing numbness.
it could be variegatic acid. usually when you cut open scarletina bolete mushrooms they also turn into this blueish color and in their case its due to variegatic acid. it looks almost the same so maybe the cannonball fruit also contains variegatic acid which is btw not toxic to humans
@@John-qn6ex copper is a common insecticide, so maybe that is why the bugs run away.
@@emberframe6994 Copper turns both greenish and bluish colors, so if it's a single substance causing all of these effects, I would have to say that copper is most likely (in my mind).
I love the cannonball fruit but you have to prepare it proberly before you eat it. The first step invoves burying the fruit in a casing of sea salt to draw out the bitter compounds over several days. Once it's done you need to wash the fruit and then heat it up really fast before you toss it with some sugar. Then let it cool and eat the deliciousness that is the cannonball of all fruits.
Oxidation takes place. Better avoid eating this fruit. Can be poisonous for humans.
This fruit is weird enough that I can't tell whether you're speaking from experience or yanking our collective chains.
do you have video or anything with the recipe of it?
@@talhaayub8183this is what is referred to as a “joke”
Yeah sounds super healthy
Thank you for being on RUclips I have trying many of the fruits you had on your show like durian soursap mangosreen ice cream bean and many more
A lot of plants dispersed by megafauna are ever so slightly toxic, since very large animals aren't harmed by the small amounts of toxic chemicals yet smaller animals which cannot properly disperse the seeds are. Some people argue that many Annonaceae fall under this phenomena, and some cucurbits are like this too. I imagine something similar is going on here, its probably ever so slightly toxic which isn't great if you aren't elephant sized.
That makes sense, unless of course the fruit is in season, and large amounts are consumed. But if the two species have already developed their relationship, the megafauna may also be more proficient in processing those toxins as well!
The subject about edible versus toxic is a really vexing one:
A few kg of parsley kills a person, because parsley is toxic in large amounts.
However 3 twigs of comfrey mixed with 1/2 kg of stinging nettles is wholesome.
(Stinging nettles are an absolute SUPERFOOD.)
And in times when people have foods from the supermarket which are sprayed and bathed in poison and declare them "edible" even though every now and then consumers die of strawberries (US recently) or tomatoes (Spain 10 yes ago) I find this attitude strange.
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I have Asimina triloba
" Paw paws" fruiting in my yard. They're supposedly an achronism type fruit. We eat them. The leaves however smell like petroleum.
I read into it, and yeah, the fruit is indeed eaten and animals smaller than elephants like them also. So, it's more likely that allergy is causing the burning rather than it actually being toxic in any way.
Amazing coincidence, I'm such a botanical/chemistry geek I was just reading about this plant and its family at wikipedia. It's a source of a dye called Isatin.
Isatin hazard statements:
H302 - "Harmful if swallowed";
H315 - "Causes skin irritation";
H319 - "Causes serious eye irritation";
H335 - "May cause respiratory irritation".
Yeah, maybe best to avoid this fruit.
Is a bolete similar? I am also a bio Chem geek
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Isatin is chimically linked with indigo. In France, in the middle ages, the region of the city of Albi, in the Southwest, was famous for the cultivation of a plant (scientific name Isatis Tinctoria) which produces a prestigious blue dye called pastel (which was used for the royal garments).
i really appreciated the blueing timelapse. a man who knows what the people want
Since it turns greenish blue, I wonder if it has sort of copper compound in it. It's really strange. I would love to see a chemical analysis of the fruit to find out where the burning is coming from
Yeah there's definitely some kind of oxidation process occuring.
yes indeed copper like apples have iron this fruit lives off of copper rich soil and or mix of both silver and copper this would do good in Cerro Gordo in a green house there.
The blue oxidation reminds me more of something cyanogenic. I don’t see how a plant would have so much copper to turn that blue that fast, but plants are very good at making gyanogenic glycosides. So I’m thinking cyanide. Would also explain the burning sensation! Very bad idea to eat these if so!
I said the same exact thing when I saw the first one of these videos.
@@ariariaris Aren't the chemicals called antrocyanins? They're the chemicals in blueberries that turn red in muffins due to baking soda.
Fruits borne on cauliflorous stolons never cease to look absolutely crazy. Ground figs are another fun one, and sometimes the stolons grow underground along with the fruit (which gives rise to their name of ground figs). Some Baccaurea species are like this too. I know there's a lot more like this that I don't know off the top of my head. An entire garden of such plants would be hilarious.
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What is a ground fig? Do you have the scientific name I want to look into those but I don’t see anything upon looking up ground fig
Have a scientific name for the ground fig? Struggling to find.
Ficus Geocarpa - Ground Fig
Another trippy looking one is Ficus Sur - Cape Fig
*Be prepared for entries on Ficus Microcarpa to dominate any search attempt as it is a popular house plant/bonsai to grow, sell, buy, So more internet listings.
Your original cannonball fruit episode was so interesting to me. Plants are fascinating and I've only seen some mushrooms do this blue oxidation before, super cool to have it happen in a fruit too. Gotta love nature.
Some mushrooms eh 👀
@@wpc456cpw Ah, a giant puff-ball will give it a run for it's money.
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@@wpc456cpw Definitely. I do not partake unfortunately.
Orange peels can grow a blue-green mold. The thick rind and lobed fruit even reminds me of citrus in many ways, which certain types have acid so strong it will burn your mouth.
What you forgot to mention how strong yet sweet the flowers smell...you can smell them from hundred yards away...I used to have some happy childhood memories that were associated with that fragrance and these trees are kinda rare here now in India where I am from, so the memories came rushing back when I encountered that same fragrance at my Uni...there it was, a majestic Cannonball tree❤
Fascinating. There are bolete mushrooms that turn blue after you cut into them too.
I've heard some of them are edible.
@@unknownhours yes the ones that are edible cooked are tasty
@@unknownhours Pretty much all boletes are edible once cooked. To my knowledge there is one european variety that can cause intestinal discomfort but generally speaking, any mushroom that resembles a bolete with spongy gills is edible.
@@oldfartgaming148are several inedible and poisonous boletes in Europe. Definitely don't all of them are good cooked.
never heard of a toxic bolete in Finland.
There is a lot of these in Penang Malaysia
We used to have many of those trees ( planted by someone in the past) in my family’s vacation house here in Brazil when I was young. There is a perfume-like smell in the flowers that turn into a kind of a putrid smell and attracts many bugs, the balls are huge, heavy and might cause accidents when they fall. People always told me that they were inedible and poisonous though, so I never tried them.
I just googled the brazilian tree name “Abricó-de-macaco” and wikipedia says it’s native, originated in the amazon and adapted well to the south east where I live. This makes things really confusing as it looks exactly the same as the ones you show in the video.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couroupita_guianensis
@@alanelassad Should be the same plant. And it's not that strange, once people started sailing and moving stuff around there's been a fair amount of successful exchange of plants between southeast Asia and south/central America because of the not dissimilar weather. Think of how ubiquitous stuff like banana and mango are in Brazil even though both are native to tropical Asia.
The tree (Couroupita guianensis) is native to Central and South America. It was introduced to Asia by the British in the 19th century, and it has been misidentified as being a sacred tree from Buddhist scriptures as well as Hinduism. The Sal tree (which is native to India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Tibet and across the Himalayan regions) gets confused with the cannonball tree. Sal tree is Shorea robusta. Another that gets confused with this one is the Saraca asoca, Ashoka Tree. You can look it up better in Wikipedia, English version.
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it look tasty when you open it up and cut it piece by piece before it turn blue.
the misconception about Buddha is that some area called 2 different Sal tree using "Sal" tree but it actually from different Genus, Diptercaroaceae and Barringtoniaceae which has different leaves and flower.
Wow 1.4 million views? I was shocked to see. I’ve always loved this channel and great to see you’re doing awesome!
Reminds me of the kentucky coffee tree, another evolutionary anachronism. I planted a few myself, and it took days of on and off soaking and filing to get through the shells on the seeds. They have the single most resilient material I've ever met. You already made a video on them, though. Always amazes me to see the variety of things you've documented here.
Recently discovered your channel and subscribed right away. How wonderful to travel the world with you and explore the amazing diversity of fruit!
It is a really cool channel ran by a really cool guy... Wait till you find out about his day job. Lol
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That very unusual fruit deserves more research. Well done for finding it.
Cool video, i think the blue colour change is from the chemical indican oxidising into indigo from the atmosphere, would also explain the burning taste too. Indigo is fairly non toxic roughly 0.5% of your body mass to kill
Ah ha.. that could be
@@WeirdExplorer The blue is indigo, indirubin and isatin - which are found in many unrelated plants, not just cabbages (woad) and peas (indigo, the plant not the chemical) but also relatives of Acanthus, Hoya and buckwheat. Analysis in "The structure and properties of some indolic constituents in Couroupita guianensis aubl". Tetrahedron 1985 These are pretty innocuous and not likely to be related to the burning sensation.
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Been long awaiting your follow up review on this! Ever since your first review I have remembered 2 things about these. They turn blue and bring to mind Ralph from the Simpsons. (Tastes like burning)
I skipped this video yesterday, because I thought it was the old one. Great update! I loved the time lapse greening / bluing. I read that the burning means you are allergic, not everyone feels it. Please don't eat it any more. But thank you for tasting it again this time!
What a fascinating fruit...I'm glad you made another episode about it, because the first Cannonball fruit video left me wanting more.
Very cool fruit. I think the VERY fast blue oxidation reaction when exposed to the air is as beautiful as it is concerning. I have no idea what compounds would make it do that but it’s not surprisingly it burns when you eat it. Very pretty though!!
My guess is cyanogenic glycosides. Plants love to make those! Cyanide would also explain the burning.
The blue is indigo, indirubin and isatin - which are found in many unrelated plants, not just cabbages (woad) and peas (indigo, the plant not the chemical) but also relatives of Acanthus, Hoya and buckwheat. Analysis in "The structure and properties of some indolic constituents in Couroupita guianensis aubl". Tetrahedron 1985 These are pretty innocuous and not likely to be related to the burning sensation.
How's it concerning?
You should take a slice to a lab to get it tested. Also you should try scuppernong grapes, the skin can create a similar burning sensation but it's edible. I usually don't eat the skin but i like biting through it for the sour sweet contrast.
The irritation from some grapes is caused by large amounts of tannins in the skins.
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Take note of the little blobs that stay yellow inside of the parts of the flesh that turn blue. Maybe they are the part that is edible. Maybe those portions don't burn your insides. If so, this is a time-consuming fruit to eat, because you have to wait for the reaction to happen at least twice. Once after slicing in, and again after picking out the non-color-changing parts to make sure that no part of those chunks changes color.
those are seeds and the seed pods..
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Perhaps cooked into a pudding would prevent the sting?
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I planted a couple of trees. One at my old high school and one in a traffic island. Nice fragrant flowers but I'd never try to taste it because the fruit has a very bad odor. Had to stand upwind to get the seeds to plant.
It is found in plenty in our sayaji park garden at vadodara the smell of its flowers is so intense that we can recognise it from 10 meters and small insects are on flowers
It flowers in between winter and summer season.
Thats an amazonian fruit. In Brazil is called abricó-de-macaco (monkey peach). monkeys are the natural seed dispersor.
So monkeys actually crack these open n eat them?
Similar to avocado being green but turning brown once left out after being cut
This tree is called as Sal tree in India and the flower is called as shiva lingam and fruit is edible and contains sugar, gum, malic, citric and tartaric acids. Sal is a crucial plant for veterinary medicines (used as vaccine and medicine for respiratory diseases)
He just ate unripe one
The Sal tree is different, they are very frequently confused for each other
Couroupita guianensis, known by a variety of common names including cannonball tree,[3] is a deciduous tree in the flowering plant family Lecythidaceae. It is native to the tropical forests of Central and South America,[1] and it is cultivated in many other tropical areas throughout the world because of its beautiful, fragrant flowers and large, interesting fruits. Fruits are brownish grey.[4] There are potential medicinal uses for many parts of Couroupita guianensis,[5] and the tree has cultural and religious significance in India.[5] In Sri Lanka, the cannonball tree has been widely misidentified as Sal, after its introduction to the island by the British in 1881, and has been included as a common item in Buddhist temples as a result.[6]
Description
Couroupita guianensis is a tree that reaches heights of up to 35 m (110 ft).[7] The leaves, which occur in clusters at the ends of branches, are usually 8 to 31 centimeters (3 to 12 inches) long, but can reach lengths of up to 57 cm (22 in).[7]
That’s actually not true. Cannonball trees are often confused with sal trees.
Yes, I know this tree
Wow right off the bat, you can tell this is gonna be another stellar, in-depth video. Love the soundtrack too.
Surreal watching this as I've been to that grove many times. This may be the best English-language record of the taste of these fruit so far. I feel like if these were secretly good there would be a cottage industry around them, although that dovetails with Monstera, another well-regarded fruit that can cause burning and bleeding when unripe. The poison in that one is calcium oxalate I think. I wouldn't dare impose it on you but I wonder if these have to be well overripe or even rotten to be edible, sort of like Shibugaki.
Sad tree waiting for a giant sloth to come and eat it's bad blue fruits :( Very interesting video
Thank you for introducing me in the new world of fruits ). And special thanks for selection of suitable "outer space music" in the end of episode ))) More such music in next your videos will be appreciated more.
This reminds of wood apple, at least the hard shell outside and similar looking inside except the color. I loved the chutney made out of it, almost tamarind like flavor.
Very interesting to see it again.
Pineapple burns and does a bit of damage.
It's always hard to gauge danger until a LOT of people have eaten it for a significant amount of time. Caution is fine, but curiosity is hard to kill.
Calcium oxalate burn?
I have heard about this fruit! It is called jagua in the Caribbean and was used as a form of tattoo ink in pre-columbian times!
Thats a different one. Looks similar though
Im happy you returned to this fruit, i found it so interesting the first timw you made a video on it
I feel like the color is a warning DO NOT EAT ME 😆
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2:34 No mister, Lord Buddha was not born under the cannonball tree, because being under the cannonball tree is dangerous. Because large fruits can fall to the ground. The cannon ball tree was not present in Nepal or India in Buddha's day, this plant was introduced from South American countries to Asian countries with the establishment of the East India Trading Company. It is now confirmed that the Buddha was born under the sal/sala tree. The scientific name of the sal plant is shorea robusta. This sal tree is a species of plant native to the northern Indian region such as Nepal. Even today, this sal tree can be seen around Lumbini. I don't know why people call the canon ball tree the tree where Buddha was born. nomo Buddhaya 🙏
yes..in sri lanka people misunderstood the cannon ball as the sal tree.even in buddhas temple wall painting they draw canon ball tree as sal tree, still misunderstanding here.
I seem to remember commenting on the last video about a historical reference that you don't eat this until it is liquid and drinkable.
Every time you taste one of these “the internet says it’s edible” fruits I have to remind myself that you edited and posted this video so I know you survived 🤣
Hey Jared, thanks for this additional showcase of the cannonball fruit.Definitely not going to try this one although we have a few specimens here in Trinidad at some random locations.
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@@klm20079 I am from Trinidad and have been aware of the fruit all my life and I don’t have a clue if it’s edible . Just another fruit around
I was just in Vietnam and was wondering about this fruit ! Thank you for answering my question . It is an incredible looking tree !love your show ! Thanks again !❤
Haha, yes Jared! I was hoping you'd revisit this one day.
I think you’re the greatest, finding and testing these fruit, love it, keep it up. Don’t forget to tell me when the book is out.
I'd bet this fruit would a great candidate for fermentation! I wish I had some to experiment with...
That is what I was thinking when he talked about needing processing. Wonder what it would be like if processed like cocoa?
@@bongmuon That's such an interesting thought! I forget how unique the cocoa fermenting process is.
What a fun video, I've always wondered if they were edible! Such a beautiful tree & flowers, and the scent of the flowers is great too!
I like the new style of videos you're making! Clean production 🤘
Correction: Buddha could not have been born under a cannonball tree since it is native to central and South America and has only been brought to Asia as an ornamental tree in the past two centuries or so.
Exactly, I thought it was weird cuz of the natural range of the ground sloths
Buddha was born under a Sal tree, which is native to India, between the Himalayas and the indian Ocean.
The Sal tree is twice as big as the Cannonball tree. It's mainly used for it's timber.
You are in Taiping, Perak, Malaysia. My home town. Tq for acknowledging the cannon ball tree... the flowers are beautiful... you know the fruit is not enjoyable cos no other animals eat it, even monkeys n squirrels n birds stay away from it.
It tastes quite good,,,, "spit" 😂
Very cool vid!
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Interesting revisit of this tree! I thought of you in Saigon a month or so ago when I saw these planted as street trees (What on earth were they thinking?!!) down in District 7. They were still somewhat small but already covered in fruits. The fallen flowers on the sidewalks were beautiful though.
I was not tempted to eat the fruit. 😅
I'm so glad you put this up! We found some on the ground the other day and were trying to figure out whether it was edible or not! There's a tree at the church ground, hehe. No clouds of mosquitoes here.
Reminds me of when garlic turns blue - very similar shades.
Awesome follow-up! Certainly more along the lines of what I think we were hoping for the first time around. 👍
Can't wait to see what fruit you find in New Caledonia.
omg i'm dying at the light tapping of the knife blade on the shell of the fruit like he's gently reprimanding it for burning him
It turns blue like some mushrooms
Based on what I've read, although edible, if you have burning or tingling sensation it is either unripe (like the first one) or that you may be allergic to the fruit. It looks like it is used in some cultures medicinally, but you did the right thing by not eating it with the reaction. Thank you for all of your wonderful videos!
You might be onto something there. Maybe the burning is a food allergy? Jared, next time you get a sample, get a friend to taste it to compre notes. Also take the sample to an allergist and get tested, this could be a problem if you try a fruit you get a strong reaction to.
Is there a difference in the flavor of where it turns blue vs. where it stays yellow?
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Could you try the whitebark raspberry please
I'll keep a look out for it
nothing very special about blackcap raspberries
Gautama Buddha was both born and died under Sal trees, Shorea robusta. The cannonball tree is native to South America an ocean away when Buddha was born.
I think the Cannonball fruit is edible the internet says the ripe fruit is edible (the unripe ones lead to allergic reactions somethimes) and not poisonous and gets commonly feed to pigs and other livestock so if it is safe to eat for pigs it is very ulikely that it would be poisonous for humans because pigs are omnivorous just like humans and in general quite similar to humans in a lot of ways.
we have 2 or 3 of these cannon ball trees in our botanical gardens in St. Vincent, the oldest botanical gardens in the western hemisphere. The plant is originally from Brazil
I'd love to see this fruit being better studied. Beyond that, I'd love to see it being cooked, having more things done with it.
Also, you might just be allergic to it.
That is true. If it tastes like burning, that could be a food allergy. I’ve heard some people discovered they’re allergic to celery when they describe it as “spicy.”
What a wild looking tree and fruit, thank you, love learning from you. I think you really need a streaming show. Your research on each fruit you try is great too. Besides the information on your experience tasting these unusual fruits to us in the US and other countries. That avocado like slice was fascinating.
Mỹ việt girlfriend says you must cover it for three days in buffalo dung remove it and throw the fruit away and eat buffalo dung for best taste
ahhh much like the Australian recipe for Parrot.
put the parrot in a pot with three large rocks, and boil for three to four days.
drain the water, toss the parrot and eat the rocks as theyre going to be more tender/tasty than the parrot
I'm so glad you circled back around to this. Cuz I really respect your palette. And I was today years old the first time I ever said that😅
Burning like chilli or like an acidic fruit?
more like acid
No, the Buddha born under Sal tree not cannonball tree. The cannonball tree is native to the tropical forests of Central and South America. It is introduction to Asia in the first time to Sri Lanka by the British in 1881. The cannonball tree has been widely misidentified as Sal tree which is sacred tree in Buddhism. Then it become another sacred tree in Buddhism after that.
Why does it weirdly remind me of an osage orange? But like the mushy tropical version. Similar seeds (kinda), nothing eats them minus extinct megafauna and they are horrible/unpleasant to eat 😂
I read an article in French which said it should only be eaten when ripe. It is rarely eaten by humans and in times of famine. Some villages add it to drinks for medicinal purposes. It is usually fed to pigs and chickens.
I've watched all the previous videos about it, kinda surprised of the return to "making things right" xD. Here in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil we have some of those around the city...sometimes next to homeless people, with top 3 kg a fruit and bearing so many them sounds like a potential good source of sustenance right? Well...I would like to discover a satisfactory way to eat this...
My guess is that it’s metabolizing tryptophan into indole or indican, and that is being oxidized on exposure to air to a indigo.
I am disappointed you did not load one into a cannon lol
missed opportunity..
You inspire me to further explore the fruit kingdom and taste all fruit also. Great review
It is called naga linga tree or Shiva linga tree in Kerala India. Considered as sacred tree. You can see these trees here. Beautiful flowers...
I saw those trees in Thailand. I was amazed! They look almost unreal!
Is it possible you're just allergic to these things, and that's why you're burning when you eat it?
It could be but after eating all these fruits this would be the only allergic reaction.
The sequel we didn't know we needed. Can't believe the thing is palatable when ripe! Oh, also, what's the song playing during the time-lapse? It sounds wonderful
In India there is a fruit called "bael", which similar to this kind, but smaller in size. The leaves and fruit both are used in Temples and the fruit consumed by humans.
In the northern coast of Jawa there are fruits they called Kawis that look exactly like this one from the outside but totally different from the inside. People use them to make syroop, since it tastes a bit alcoholic and rather weird if you eat it directly... Making them into syroop makes it taste more delicious
I wonder if they could be juiced. I have juiced peppervine berries, and that allows the calcium oxalate crystals to settle in the bottom, which is the burning irritant present in those. I wonder if it's the same compound here burning your mouth.
I was wondering from seven years to find the properties of the tree and fruits and I got it from your channel thank u .
The species is from tropical south America. It was introduced to south east Asia by the British. They were probably planted in the temple yard because if the nice flower smell.
ive heard that this fruit can be allergenic. The burning could be because of an allergic reaction but in general yea it seems while edible this fruit isnt the tastiest choice
Great video, as always
It is called NAGAMALLI tree in telugu. Its flower looks like the thousand headed serpent protecting the sivalingam. It has a sacred place in hindu mind. 5:04
In Indian state Karnataka flower of this tree is called NaagaLinga Pushpa or Naga Sampige. This tree is common in Bangalore city.
What animal can be heard
In the background at 6:23? Around then
elephant 🐘
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The flowers of this tree are very fragrant. i was in the botanic garden howrah in the june 2022 and the fragrance of these flowers was radiating upto 10 meters, may be more.
That's an amazing looking tree!
I've never heard of this fruit.
Malaysian here, there one of these trees growing in my area and I had no idea it had any culinary use
You should try Harum manis, its a mango but its only available at Perlis Malaysia and only this time of the year (APRIL, MAY) ONLY.
In Trinidad 🇹🇹 we call it Jumbee Calabash, if u cut the bark of the tree it produces a stench like a dead corpse.
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