I live in Pennsylvania and I had to look online to see this fruit for the first time. I really appreciate your video. It's amazing how many fruits there are in the world that we have never heard of. Thanks for sharing!!
Our home in the Marshall Islands is packed with PANDANAS. They can spread by floating over the ocean to Islands, which is ideal for a nation made of atolls. Second only to the coconut, pandanas are essential to life on these resource poor Islands as they can provide for so many of our needs. I lived in a thatch house made of pandanas for a while which stayed cool in the summer and warm in the winter by "breathing" with the weather around us. It was also a work of art, looking at how it was stitched together was mesmerizing. As to the issue with eating the fruit, you can gnaw on the individual grenades when they are hard and unforgiving and are guaranteed to give you furry teeth . Or you can throw them in a pot of water and boil them. For many of the children in this region, including my own, boiled böb which had its soft flesh scraped out, ate this pudding like food as their first baby food after nursing. Very nutritious and high in vitamins C&E particularly . I honestly miss this lovely plant
Thanks for sharing your experience. This is first time I heard of this plant. I'm staying in Malaysia 🇲🇾, country full of many types of fruits. Including some rare fruits like Durian. I wish one can try this Hala Fruit.
I just acquired a Pandanus Amaryllifolius, from our Modesto Junior College Agricultural program in Central Valley of California. It has a beautiful light green foliage, and the tag says it is edible. I'm looking forward to seeing how this grows! It tells me full to partial sun, and I am hoping our hot climate will be good for it.
That's awesome! I saw those in Hawaii, but couldn't find any ripe ones. I took a "seed"/key back home with me to CA, but it's been over a year and it hasn't sprouted.
There are hundreds of varieties, so probably best to find someone who is growing/eating them on the mainland and get seeds or a small plant. They are very beautiful trees :)
We have this in India too. We have a plant and it seems to be a slightly diff variety than the one you've shown. We do not live on the coast, further in, so it grows in mud. Not sandy soil as such. Not sure if this variety is safe to eat though. Haven't heard of anybody here eating it. They just ripen and the segments keep falling off. Seems like the bats and others birds here don't eat it too. As they fall down intact and untouched. Unlike all other fruits in our garden which are prey to either monkeys, bat, birds or squirrels - always get to them before we do. Hahaha.
I have 5 of these trees in my front yard here in Florida. 2 of the trees are female and just started fruiting. There’s dozens of fruit all over them. I just moved to this house last year, so I’ve never ate the fruit before. They aren’t ripe yet, but I’ve been looking forward to getting to taste them. You say some are not edible? How do I find out if mine are the edible ones?
I'm not too sure how to tell sorry. I know the edible ones are quite rare compared to all the commercial varieties planted out by councils / landscaping nurseries. I tried eating a ripe one I found on a beach here and it gave my mouth a itchy burning sticky sensation. The scent was similar but inedible. Maybe ask some local experts in your area, or post a photo of them on facebook groups? My tell here is they always seem to have smaller and thinner nuggets to the edible variety, and overall size is much smaller. Good luck 🙂
@@mytropicalfruitforestlife Okay thanks. The fruit on mine look like they’re just forming. They are much smaller at the moment. I will talk to our local nursery and see if they know.
the edible one is red , dark red when ripe. And fragrant, hence the name pandanus odorifer. You need to boil it or grated it or just use strong blender. It's similar how u will process sugarcane. Just take the juice. Use the juice for drink or for cake or pudding. Just like pandan.
I am glad you mention that because I also have a big tree in front of my house is Florida . The fruits are not as big as the one in the video. they started to fall this week. They are single buttons and they are yellow with not much pulp. I tried to taste it but not much flavor, only the center of the pine has a very soft pineapple fill to it but I got a little itchy trough when I swallow. I guess it is not the eatable kind. Only bees allover it and accouple of big paws mark on the trunk that look like bear marks.😀
@@mytropicalfruitforestlife actually the ones we eat are two times the size of the ones you are eating here. also we eat them by thinly slicing the edible part and then eat with the fibres.
We have this fruit in some beaches in Brasil. No one knows it, but I'm so curious!! I had to search for it in English, in Portuguese I didn't find anything helpful. Thanks for your video, I'm going to give it a chance and try it today!
There are so many of these in Yap Island, Micronesia. I am always curious if it's edible 😂. I was 12 when I first saw it but my parents aren't sure if it can be eaten. 😢
There are many species of Pandanus fruit. I can tell you which ones is edible. It's eaten when it's ripe. Some species has to be cooked. Other species like Hawaiian Pandanus fruit are not edible.
THIS IS NOTHING COMPARE TO MY PHILIPPINE JACKFRUIT. THE BEST SNACK FRUIT IN THE WORLD UNIVERSE. PERIOD. I WISH THEY CAN GROW IT HERE IN AMERICA, BUT IT'S TOO DAMN COLD HERE AND THIS ONLY GREW IN A HOT ASIAN CLIMATE.
I live in Pennsylvania and I had to look online to see this fruit for the first time. I really appreciate your video. It's amazing how many fruits there are in the world that we have never heard of. Thanks for sharing!!
Our home in the Marshall Islands is packed with PANDANAS. They can spread by floating over the ocean to Islands, which is ideal for a nation made of atolls. Second only to the coconut, pandanas are essential to life on these resource poor Islands as they can provide for so many of our needs. I lived in a thatch house made of pandanas for a while which stayed cool in the summer and warm in the winter by "breathing" with the weather around us. It was also a work of art, looking at how it was stitched together was mesmerizing. As to the issue with eating the fruit, you can gnaw on the individual grenades when they are hard and unforgiving and are guaranteed to give you furry teeth . Or you can throw them in a pot of water and boil them. For many of the children in this region, including my own, boiled böb which had its soft flesh scraped out, ate this pudding like food as their first baby food after nursing. Very nutritious and high in vitamins C&E particularly . I honestly miss this lovely plant
Thanks for sharing your experience. This is first time I heard of this plant. I'm staying in Malaysia 🇲🇾, country full of many types of fruits. Including some rare fruits like Durian.
I wish one can try this Hala Fruit.
Iakwe 🇲🇭
I just acquired a Pandanus Amaryllifolius, from our Modesto Junior College Agricultural program in Central Valley of California. It has a beautiful light green foliage, and the tag says it is edible. I'm looking forward to seeing how this grows! It tells me full to partial sun, and I am hoping our hot climate will be good for it.
That's awesome! I saw those in Hawaii, but couldn't find any ripe ones. I took a "seed"/key back home with me to CA, but it's been over a year and it hasn't sprouted.
There are hundreds of varieties, so probably best to find someone who is growing/eating them on the mainland and get seeds or a small plant. They are very beautiful trees :)
This fruit is also used to make a Samoan chief’s (matai) ula fala or necklace, predominantly red but you can also find it in brown.
That’s correct but its a different variety that is not eaten.
We have this in India too. We have a plant and it seems to be a slightly diff variety than the one you've shown. We do not live on the coast, further in, so it grows in mud. Not sandy soil as such. Not sure if this variety is safe to eat though. Haven't heard of anybody here eating it. They just ripen and the segments keep falling off. Seems like the bats and others birds here don't eat it too. As they fall down intact and untouched. Unlike all other fruits in our garden which are prey to either monkeys, bat, birds or squirrels - always get to them before we do. Hahaha.
There are many varieties, be careful if try because some make your throat very itchy haha
How do I ID an edible vs a poisonous variety
Crazy how there are so many fruit I have never even heard of. This is a first
I have 5 of these trees in my front yard here in Florida. 2 of the trees are female and just started fruiting. There’s dozens of fruit all over them. I just moved to this house last year, so I’ve never ate the fruit before. They aren’t ripe yet, but I’ve been looking forward to getting to taste them. You say some are not edible? How do I find out if mine are the edible ones?
I'm not too sure how to tell sorry. I know the edible ones are quite rare compared to all the commercial varieties planted out by councils / landscaping nurseries. I tried eating a ripe one I found on a beach here and it gave my mouth a itchy burning sticky sensation. The scent was similar but inedible. Maybe ask some local experts in your area, or post a photo of them on facebook groups? My tell here is they always seem to have smaller and thinner nuggets to the edible variety, and overall size is much smaller. Good luck 🙂
@@mytropicalfruitforestlife Okay thanks. The fruit on mine look like they’re just forming. They are much smaller at the moment. I will talk to our local nursery and see if they know.
the edible one is red , dark red when ripe. And fragrant, hence the name pandanus odorifer. You need to boil it or grated it or just use strong blender. It's similar how u will process sugarcane. Just take the juice. Use the juice for drink or for cake or pudding. Just like pandan.
I am glad you mention that because I also have a big tree in front of my house is Florida . The fruits are not as big as the one in the video. they started to fall this week. They are single buttons and they are yellow with not much pulp. I tried to taste it but not much flavor, only the center of the pine has a very soft pineapple fill to it but I got a little itchy trough when I swallow. I guess it is not the eatable kind. Only bees allover it and accouple of big paws mark on the trunk that look like bear marks.😀
@@mytropicalfruitforestlife actually the ones we eat are two times the size of the ones you are eating here. also we eat them by thinly slicing the edible part and then eat with the fibres.
We have this fruit in some beaches in Brasil. No one knows it, but I'm so curious!! I had to search for it in English, in Portuguese I didn't find anything helpful. Thanks for your video, I'm going to give it a chance and try it today!
Mine is tough, I'm going to boil it
Best tropical fruit ever!
There are so many of these in Yap Island, Micronesia. I am always curious if it's edible 😂. I was 12 when I first saw it but my parents aren't sure if it can be eaten. 😢
There are many species of Pandanus fruit. I can tell you which ones is edible. It's eaten when it's ripe. Some species has to be cooked. Other species like Hawaiian Pandanus fruit are not edible.
Em different long karuka ah? Nambis variety. Was the video done in Morobe as well?
No West New Britain, I don't know if they have this edible variety elsewhere in PNG. Most wild varieties you see are not the edible kinds.
I think this is pandanus odorifer or hala fruit or pandan laut
Were u standing at the very top step of the ladder? Omg no plz be safe
THIS IS NOTHING COMPARE TO MY PHILIPPINE JACKFRUIT. THE BEST SNACK FRUIT IN THE WORLD UNIVERSE. PERIOD. I WISH THEY CAN GROW IT HERE IN AMERICA, BUT IT'S TOO DAMN COLD HERE AND THIS ONLY GREW IN A HOT ASIAN CLIMATE.
Check Florida and California, they grow many different types of Jackfruit.
I want to eat this fruit so badly
look like jackfruit
These are screw pine fruit correct?
Yes but the edible variety. There are many inedible kinds, some cause itchy throats so choose wisely.
That is ripe?
Yes, shouldn't be this hard to pop the fruit out, so another couple days later would be idea. But they do remain a firm hard fruit to eat :)
🤮🤮aquí en USA se caen al piso la comen las iguanas 🦎. No tenía idea que el humano consumía eso
Can you contact me to send me some???
No
@@shmillbe3390 That's OK to