Tutu. Poisonous. New Zealands Deadliest Wild Plant
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Tutu is considered New Zealand's Deadliest Wild Native Plant. This video explains the Tutu's dangers, identifying characteristics and more for anyone wanting useful, practical knowledge for their survival/bush craft video library and knowledge base.
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Māori would extract the purple juice (wai pūhouwas) and would filter out the minute poisonous seeds using toetoe or raupō flower fibres, apparently this juice was so delicious and sweet it was worth all the effort and risk.
Māori also boiled the juice with seaweed to make a jelly and the plant soot was used as an ink for traditional tattooing. Early settlers also used the juice for wine and beer making.
This plant is still being used medicinally for treating various illnesses and injuries.
Thanks for the great info bro.
Kia ora, Māori use this plant as a rongoa for making oil. Its properties or essential oils heals bones, internal bone fractures, any type of internal bone ailments. Please do not kill it, just don't drink it! All of Tane Mahuta's tamariki are rongoa, Māori medicine. Mauri Ora!
Thanks for commenting and the added insight into Tutu. Very interesting to learn about its medicinal properties.
Kind of like the Kiwi version of comfrey? Applied via poultice?
Thanks Dave outdoors.
There is a final distinguishing character, the veins of the leaf do no have a main steam up the middle with veins branching off. Instead the veins run from the base to the tip. I apologise for my ignorant description, maybe someone out there can elaborate on what I'm trying to describe.
Interesting tip. I had not noticed that before. Always good to have greater knowledge of this little nasty plant. Thanks for the info.
@@southernlandsolo7839 you're welcome, it's an interesting patern and very distinguishable
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I've been learning a lot about our natives from your channel Dave. Much appreciated for all the hard work you do! Raglan, NZ
Thanks Leon. A lot of awesome bush in your area of the Waikato bro. I love it down that way.
...about that elephant dying....an old fulla was telling me about when the circus came to mangakino, a hydro town when whakamaru dam on the waikato river was being constructed.. many years ago...he was telling me about the elephant that died in mangakino after eating tutu..probably the late 50s or 60s.. . ...thats the story i believe you are soeaking about...
That sounds like it. Thanks bro. I was did not know where it took place.
he got vets advice sent by God
kia ora very informative on the tutu rongoa.
Thanks for viewing and commenting. I am surprised at just how much of this plant is around us in public areas. But seems as though it may be safe as long as it is not consumed.
Good to know as kids we use to play with the berrys all the time.
Wow, interesting bro. Good to see none of you were tempted to taste them 🙂
I understand the tutu is made into an ointment to treat pain from arthritis for example
Very interesting. I hadn't heard of that. Thanks very much Suzanne
Ooh yeah, bone mender💯
If you own beehives and are selling or giving away the honey for human consumption, you need to have the honey tested for tutin contamination. The honey can become quite poisonous apparently
Thanks for the tip. This plant is one of New Zealand's nasties to watch out for.
More likely in some places than others. Up north more of a risk. Seasonal, when flowering? Have a vague feeling passion one hoppers are involved somehow. Beekeepers are legally required to test in areas at the danger season from memory.
Thanks for the video, I have a passion for native wildlife and native plants.
I go to the Uruweras every year, Thanks again!
Thanks for watching Kameron. I understand your passion bro, NZ is such a unique and interesting place. Haven't been into the Uruweras yet but plan on it in the early future.
daveoutdoorsnz cool, and thanks for replying!
The tutu also known as the tūpākihi. Medicinally used to mending bone fractures from hand to hand combats. Used as a balm or oil for muscular pain or soreness. Must wash hands after use as it is very toxic if injested.
Thanks Barry. Do you know how it was applied for bone fractures?
Sorry, I'm not sure...
Thank you i appreciate your knowledge and your ability to explain in plain language...
Thanks very much. Dave
Thanks for another interesting Video Dave, if I ever get the opportunity to visit New Zealand again you have to teach me some more, all the best, your friend Taro
Thanks Taro. The invitation is an open one bro. Let me know if you are heading out this way and I can help out at this end brother.
Just had a mirimiri using kawakawa and tutu baln for sore muscles. I was told to be careful about scratching my back or kids touching it
Viewers have commented that Tutu can be used for medicine. Makes sense about the safety aspect. Kids, in the past, have been know to eat the berries/petals but not realising the poisonous seed was in it.
Great video Dave! Been wondering when you'd post again! This is the first I've heard of Tutu, if I see it I'll be sure to steer clear!
Cheers
Thanks bro. It gets hard to plan in the bush time sometimes. I have one more to post next week, then filming again lol. Loving it. I have been keeping up on your vids mate.
@@southernlandsolo7839 Thanks Dave. I'll look forward your videos.
If it can kill a elephant it’s something to defanatly steer clear of. Great video Dave keep up the good work.
Thanks Rob. How is the Florida bush treating you bro?
daveoutdoorsnz it’s treating me good Dave hunting season is right around the corner. I been real busy coaching my sons little league baseball team.
@@houseboatrob4238 Awesome bro.
Learn about how Maori used this plant as an ointment for a lot of things but you much boil it for 3 days straight to get the toxin out
Great channel, thank you! :)
Thanks Timothy. Very glad you are enjoying it. Thanks for the feedback bro. Dave
Lots of good information. The pictures that I have seen of the tree nettle are different to this plant. They look more like a stinging nettle with white hairs, is that a different species that you are showing us? Thanks
I did a little bit of research. It seems like a different species. I have never seen one in the wild. What a nasty looking plant it is. Thanks Anthony.
Is that a published notebook, or your own?
If it is a published pocket book, what is the name of it please. So I can search it out, if you don't have a link or publisher source?
I love going bush etc, but have always taken my own food. I would like to get much more knowledgeable in this aspect of NZ plants, just in case of a SHTF scenario.
Apologies for the late reply, I have missed a number of comments and only just got to them. The notebook was my own Write In The Rain waterproof notebook with my own personal notes. I have put a link below to one of my favorite books which I think you may find very useful. Thanks Rev GC
www.whitcoulls.co.nz/a-field-guide-to-the-native-edible-plants-of-new-zealand-5603007
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Thank you. Very much appreciated.
Nice seng. That was ginseng along the creek wasn't it
I'm not familiar with ginseng bro. It could well have been
@@southernlandsolo7839 it's was those 4 pronged plants that look like they have broad 5 finger leaves that resemble pot or a Virginia creeper leaf.
Ginseng not normally known around in our bush.
Tutu flower juice for smoothies anyone? might as well use cobra venom at least Elephant can survive that.
lol. Thanks for watching
It's a tapu plant ae my bro
True bro. A big penalty to pay for transgressing the tapu on this one.
Can you please give a little more detail? Tapu as in sacred and not to be messed with?
Sounds nasty. Personally i try to keep away from easily mistaken plants and mushrooms. In survival, plant knowledge, i think generally is much downplayed. Like many times you have just a list of edible plants and you should be fine. But thats not how it works (when? where? how? what?). The same would be if you had a survival hunting quide and you had only pictures of animals that you can eat :)
Good points. I don't spend any time trying to identify mushrooms, I keep away from them all because it is too easy to make a lethal mistake. That way I will not be tempted to take risks, even if I am starving.
daveoutdoorsnz Yes many mushrooms have very lethal poison. Have to be careful. Personally i pick wide variety of mushrooms, even some poisonous ones that can be treated to be safe eating.
tutu means death upon death in our native tongue
Thanks Kane. The name definitely matches the plant.
It means burn
@@LonnieBoy Interesting. It is also translated as violence, arson (burn),
@@southernlandsolo7839 im tongan myself but im born n bred kiwi . Many similarities in our languages . That was my direct translation from tongan for tutu . Means burn/ignite . And i assumed itd be very similar in te reo
@@LonnieBoy Interesting bro, how ancestry can be traced through centuries by language. I had a friend who was Cook Island Maori and he could converse with many older New Zealand Maori who spoke, what he called, the old language.
...about that elephant dying....an old fulla was telling me about when the circus came to mangakino, a hydro town when whakamaru dam on the waikato river was being constructed.. many years ago...he was telling me about the elephant that died in mangakino after eating tutu..probably the late 50s or 60s.. . ...thats the story i believe you are soeaking about...
Thanks very much for the comment mate. I think you are correct about that being the very same story. When I was researching for this video I remember Mangakino being mentioned. Thanks for the info.
The memorial for the elephant is In ohakune, I have seen it
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