Here in Brazil we also have a fruit that is called yellow jaboticaba, Myrciaria glazioviana. It is not a true jaboticaba, but a lot of people call it one. It is also called "cabeludinha"(little hairy) or just "cabeluda"(hairy), because its skin is covered in hairs.
My neighbor " Uncle" next door has a Sabra type Jaboticaba. It is the biggest trunk size one I've seen, here in Hawaii. I definitely agree that it has a more creamy flavor than the red purple. I pick and sell the fruit to a friend with a fruit stand. My friend also juices them and saves the skins and pits. The skins and such are then dehydrated to make tea with. The Tea is brewed and he adds thinly sliced turmeric per cup it is sweetened with honey. It tastes very good ( yes it has a mild peppery taste) but has a beautiful blue purple color. By the way the juice is fabulous.
I love those fruits, I've been eating them since my childhood. I've also seen jaboticaba wine and steak sauce made from them. They are amazing and only come once a year, ripening quickly on every branch in a beautiful way. Here's a little folklore for you: my parents taught me that if I'm eating a lot, I should swallow 2 or 3 rinds so I wouldn't get a stomach ache(I think it works but who knows lol).
vincent giving you his first and only fruit off his red jaboticaba tree shocked me! those trees can take 6-12 years to fruit ive heard. i would be guarding that one fruit with an electric fence lol!
Cauliflory fruits seem to be unique, but special. Papaya and cacao are fruits that are especially enjoyed worldwide, and now we know about the lost cousin, the jaboticaba. Great video!
When I was a kid I used to l pick them off of the trees in my grandma's country house and eat them right away after giving them a wash. Nothing compares to this feeling. However, I've only had the purple variety, I can't find the other ones here in São Paulo, Brazil
That encounter with the cassowary is waaay too close for comfort. I would've backed away as soon as I saw it. Gorgeous birds but absolutely terrifying. All for the fruit!
There's one inside the orchid conservatory in Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden. I tried some of the fruit and I really do think it's my favorite. That one is really sweet and creamy. It was surprising because when I say creamy I mean it tastes like sweet cream. It was really wilds and nothing I would have ever expected from a fruit.
This is cinema: conflict between the main characters, flashbacks to old footage, a thrilling cassowary escape, and a heartwarming bit to end it off. Call this a fruit adventure
There was a black jaboticaba in the greenhouse of UIUC where I went to school. Sometimes it would fruit and they would forbid us all from eating any; but we did anyway and it was very delicious.
Thanks for putting the scientific names for every fruit. It helps greatly in searching online & elsewhere. A very fruitful family the myrtaceae! I wonder if they have any common taste traits? I love eating Acca sellowiana and even Myrtus fruits are good edibles. Cloves, allspice, rose apple & eucalyptus are also in the same family.
@thetrawlerman yeah once you start down the rabbit hole it doesn't seem to end. I needed to stop myself buying more varieties as I have so many other fruits I want to grow, garcinias, pouterias etc!
I have already planted dozens of these trees, with 10 of them already mature and flowering exactly this month. The variety we have here south of Brazil is the plinia peruviana, a variety with dense foliage that presents a beautiful bright red color in new leaves, producing big fruits, but taking 8 to 10 years to fruit under ideal conditions.
I am a simple (Brazilian) man. I see Jaboticaba, I like the video. It is my favorite fruit! The "SabarÁ" is pronounced with Enphasis on the RAH. It is named after the town neighboring my home town, where that comes from. That city has a whole festival around the fruit. Also, I think "red" jaboticaba is a mistranslation. Because in portuguese purple = roxo, but people may mistranslate it as red due to similarity with spanish rojo
espirito santo is the name of bazilian state from which the fruit came from sabará popular name is "olho de boi", meaning bull's eye because thei big size i have small hybrid tree much like the one on the video, the good part of this cultivar is that the tree poduces fruit all along the year as long as you give good fetilizer thanks for the nice video
I loved the bit of the video about Australia! I live in Townsville, North Queensland, about 2 1/2 hours drive south from Mission Beach where the fruit farm is located. I’ve seen cassowaries a few times on the drive in and out from the beach and they are indeed a magnificent and intimidating bird.
The hybrid jabuticaba tastes a bit tart it they aren't 100% rippened, they need to be completely black with no green spots, else they will taste almost the same as a sabará. Also if they have really thin rinds, and at least at my home the bees destroy almost all of them, but no the sabará ones.
Love Jaboticabas, I used to climb the trees to get as much as possible when I was a kid. If you mash the fruit (skins, seeds and all) and ferment it with sugar you will get a DELICIOUS liquor. Try it out.
🦆 🦆 🦆 thank you so much for the lovely duck 🦆 football footage, it was adorable 💕 😊 Also thank you for your kindness in sharing your fruit adventures with us, the viewers, here on UA-cam.😅 Sending greetings to Vostok 🐈😸🐈
I have a YELLOW Jaboticaba that tastes like apricot. Fruits are a little fuzzy and it grows very similarly to that first "white" that you tried but the leaves are shorter. Aloha!
I really want to try these so bbad, but I think it will be quite some time before I see these on sale at my local Wegmans store. I wonder if any to the Central or South American grocery store would have them, but where I live there aren't a ton of those kinds of stores hanging around.
I am thankful that at least this fruit can be found in markets in the midwest, though you usually have to go to the smaller Asian or Hispanic stores, which means that the price can be a bit high. It's a shame that it is not available on a regular basis, though. The Jaboticaba that I have tasted has reminded me of slightly less sweet concord grape juice. Very tasty.
The funny thing is, the fruits often do make their international debuts in frozen food sections abroad, such as the pulp & juice or even the whole fruits, also so with veggies & other edible plants. They're actually just as nute-dense as as their fresh counterparts & even dried ones, seriously look those up
Now you got me wondering what type I have growing in my garden. One tree got it's first few fruits this year, 5 years after planting it. Though I'm guessing it's probably the Sabara variety as the fruits I've seen on mature trees are fairly big.
The sycamore fig (limited to the warmer Jordan Valley, since it is more tropical and characteristic of the Nile Valley) shows up at least twice in the Bible (it is the tree Zaccheus climbed in Luke 20:4, and Amos was described as formerly being "a dresser of sycamore figs" before being called to prophesy in the Northern ykingdom of Israel/Samaria). Interesting tie-ins.
Funnily enough Jaboticaba was one of the plants that first got me interested in plants (purely just by looking around online), I always wanted to try making a bonsai of one. Unfortunately Myrtaceae fruit seem to cause an allergic reaction for me (nothing dangerous but it really upsets my stomach to the point of vomiting) so I never ended up doing anything. They still look so tempting though... As an aside, Jaboticabas are one of those groups of plants that collectors will pay frankly absurd prices to get some particularly rare species/variety which is barely distinguishable from another more common one.
@@WeirdExplorer firstly thanks for the reply, always nice to get a direct response, been a viewer since ep 80. I might have to see if there's a way to get jaboticaba's here in the UK to make it myself. Probably easier to get medhrono though!
Im in Phoenix Arizona, and I grow the purple, red, white, sabara, and blue vexeter. To me, they taste exactly like grape candy, or grape Hubba Bubba Gum. In other words, they taste like grape candy instead of actual grapes.
I would love to share with you the Cornus canadensis fruit. It's not that great, but it's edible and I don't think you've had it before! If you ever come to Canada and Quebec, don't hesitate to tell us with a community post or something, I could get in touch with you and show you all wild edible fruits I know and you might not have tried yet from here!
I was JUST looking up jaboticabas yesterday because I was trying to remember the word for “grows directly on the bark.” The word is cauliflory. Because it looks like cauliflower, I guess?
Im pretty sure I seen this fruit/tree at San Diego Zoo, but it had to be like 40 - 60 feet tall. Had the fruit all the way up and down the trunk. Large dark fruits, like the frist kinds.
I have 200 plus plants here in NZ, with 20 plus varieties(sabara, grimal, paulista,red, yellow, phitrantha, some otto anderson,etc etc, also a few variegated, but dont have white or blue and want them both haha
I have heard them compared to muscadine grapes. Perhaps that is just visual (I have tasted beer, bubblegum, and sugar from scuppernongs [a bronze muscadine], not "blueberry yogurt." Have you tried these Southern grapes (Vitis rotundifolia)?
I have no clue why, but every time I see a notification for your videos I immediately click. I'm always in the mood to learn about a rare fruit from a weird explorer, and watch you eat it.
Thought i would try asking this ive been looking for exotic mints Peppermint. Spearmint. Pineapple Mint. Orange Mint. Chocolate Mint. Ginger Mint. Horsemint. Catmint. Pretty much the Mentha family for my spice shelf but ive been having trouble finding them do you know where i could find them
Are you in the USA or Canada? I have found a diverse selection at Ritcher's Herbs (Canada, but will ship most things, including mint, to the US, apparently without charging an extreme phytosanitary import fee) and some Etsy sellers. I am in the USA, so I can't speak to Europe or other parts of the world. Remember to keep mints controlled in pots (etc), as they are quite stoloniferous/weedy.
I wanted t o try this out after I saw it- so I went to an exotic fruit nursery near me and bought a baby sapling for about 10$- little did I know later I would discover it would take TWENTY years for them to mature & start producing fruit... welp
Hahaha "the trees look like there being attacked by grapes" ... Yes they do lol
Those pesky grapes tribes riding innocents again
In Japan, when the people saw 17:34 the picture of a jaboticaba's tree they say " it look disgusting like bugs "
rise of the planet of the grapes!
I'd never ever give my first fruit over to somebody else! Extremely kind of Vincent and Audrey.
I will if it was someone from far away and maybe wont be able to taste that fruit again in future.
Cos it will bear fruit again i think
Aww man, I get nostalgic seeing the old footage
I'm Brazillian. When i went to Canada and first tried blueberry, I compared them to jabuticaba, the oposite experience kkkkkk
blueberry yogurn't
Here in Brazil we also have a fruit that is called yellow jaboticaba, Myrciaria glazioviana. It is not a true jaboticaba, but a lot of people call it one. It is also called "cabeludinha"(little hairy) or just "cabeluda"(hairy), because its skin is covered in hairs.
Also, there is cambucá, a yellow fruit that is also a from the Plínia genus.
My neighbor " Uncle" next door has a Sabra type Jaboticaba. It is the biggest trunk size one I've seen, here in Hawaii. I definitely agree that it has a more creamy flavor than the red purple.
I pick and sell the fruit to a friend with a fruit stand. My friend also juices them and saves the skins and pits. The skins and such are then dehydrated to make tea with. The Tea is brewed and he adds thinly sliced turmeric per cup it is sweetened with honey. It tastes very good ( yes it has a mild peppery taste) but has a beautiful blue purple color. By the way the juice is fabulous.
Make candies
or wine :D
I love those fruits, I've been eating them since my childhood. I've also seen jaboticaba wine and steak sauce made from them. They are amazing and only come once a year, ripening quickly on every branch in a beautiful way. Here's a little folklore for you: my parents taught me that if I'm eating a lot, I should swallow 2 or 3 rinds so I wouldn't get a stomach ache(I think it works but who knows lol).
vincent giving you his first and only fruit off his red jaboticaba tree shocked me! those trees can take 6-12 years to fruit ive heard. i would be guarding that one fruit with an electric fence lol!
Cauliflory fruits seem to be unique, but special. Papaya and cacao are fruits that are especially enjoyed worldwide, and now we know about the lost cousin, the jaboticaba. Great video!
Really nice to see them here!
I'm from Rio de Janeiro, and grew up eating lots of them. Our usual spelling is 'Jabuticaba'.
When I was a kid I used to l pick them off of the trees in my grandma's country house and eat them right away after giving them a wash. Nothing compares to this feeling. However, I've only had the purple variety, I can't find the other ones here in São Paulo, Brazil
That encounter with the cassowary is waaay too close for comfort. I would've backed away as soon as I saw it. Gorgeous birds but absolutely terrifying.
All for the fruit!
Always enjoy seeing your videos and finding out more about unfamiliar fruits. Also I love the Obscura shirt. I remember the episode you were on!
I once found jaboticabas at a farmer's market in Hilo. I loved them!
There's one inside the orchid conservatory in Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden. I tried some of the fruit and I really do think it's my favorite. That one is really sweet and creamy. It was surprising because when I say creamy I mean it tastes like sweet cream. It was really wilds and nothing I would have ever expected from a fruit.
Jabuticaba wine is amazing!
This is cinema: conflict between the main characters, flashbacks to old footage, a thrilling cassowary escape, and a heartwarming bit to end it off. Call this a fruit adventure
I have a grafted red hybrid in my greenhouse, can't wait for it to fruit one of these years.
There was a black jaboticaba in the greenhouse of UIUC where I went to school. Sometimes it would fruit and they would forbid us all from eating any; but we did anyway and it was very delicious.
Thanks for putting the scientific names for every fruit. It helps greatly in searching online & elsewhere.
A very fruitful family the myrtaceae!
I wonder if they have any common taste traits? I love eating Acca sellowiana and even Myrtus fruits are good edibles. Cloves, allspice, rose apple & eucalyptus are also in the same family.
I love jaboticabas and grow about 40 varieties but have a friend with a collection approaching 100 varieties!
Can you share something about how they taste or share any resources where people can find out more? Thanks!
very cool!
@@dougs_urbanfarm what? I didn't even know there existed that many, that's insane to think about. And I probably only tried one of them
@thetrawlerman yeah once you start down the rabbit hole it doesn't seem to end. I needed to stop myself buying more varieties as I have so many other fruits I want to grow, garcinias, pouterias etc!
@@WeirdExplorertry yellow jaboticaba myrciaria glazioviana!
I love that there's a place here in Aus that's part fruit tour / part Jurassic Park :D
Wait what is the place? :0
I have already planted dozens of these trees, with 10 of them already mature and flowering exactly this month. The variety we have here south of Brazil is the plinia peruviana, a variety with dense foliage that presents a beautiful bright red color in new leaves, producing big fruits, but taking 8 to 10 years to fruit under ideal conditions.
It’s such a complex flavour to explain with words. Really love the video, thanks!
🎶Shake Jaboti shake Jaboti🎶
I am a simple (Brazilian) man. I see Jaboticaba, I like the video. It is my favorite fruit!
The "SabarÁ" is pronounced with Enphasis on the RAH. It is named after the town neighboring my home town, where that comes from. That city has a whole festival around the fruit.
Also, I think "red" jaboticaba is a mistranslation. Because in portuguese purple = roxo, but people may mistranslate it as red due to similarity with spanish rojo
espirito santo is the name of bazilian state from which the fruit came from
sabará popular name is "olho de boi", meaning bull's eye because thei big size
i have small hybrid tree much like the one on the video, the good part of this cultivar is that the tree poduces fruit all along the year as long as you give good fetilizer
thanks for the nice video
Ooh fun a forage park
Oh my goodness its an extravaganza
Excellent! Love the flashbacks.
Blue and yellow ones are my favorites
Jaboticabas are delicious! They remind me of Kyoho grapes
You gotta love the jaboticaba!
These are my all time fantasy tree, one day i shall have some growing.. one day.
Have you tried the scarlet/escalarte Jaboticaba? it is supposed to be a cross between a red and a white Jaboticaba. Thanks for the video.
A fruit walked up to me yesterday and referred jabotcabas. I thanked it for the referral.
I loved the bit of the video about Australia! I live in Townsville, North Queensland, about 2 1/2 hours drive south from Mission Beach where the fruit farm is located. I’ve seen cassowaries a few times on the drive in and out from the beach and they are indeed a magnificent and intimidating bird.
I live in panama. I'm going to have to find one of these to plant in my yard.
Yes another jabuticaba video!!!! My dumbass didn't even bother looking for older videos when I asked if you had tried it
There is a province in Brazil called Espirito Santo, perhaps espirito-santensis means where he thought they were native from.
The rare yellow one is a dream of mine
I like your Oscura shirt, I used to watch their show.
How they grow right on the bark like that will never fail to make me do a double take
The hybrid jabuticaba tastes a bit tart it they aren't 100% rippened, they need to be completely black with no green spots, else they will taste almost the same as a sabará. Also if they have really thin rinds, and at least at my home the bees destroy almost all of them, but no the sabará ones.
Love Jaboticabas, I used to climb the trees to get as much as possible when I was a kid. If you mash the fruit (skins, seeds and all) and ferment it with sugar you will get a DELICIOUS liquor. Try it out.
🦆 🦆 🦆 thank you so much for the lovely duck 🦆 football footage, it was adorable 💕 😊
Also thank you for your kindness in sharing your fruit adventures with us, the viewers, here on UA-cam.😅
Sending greetings to Vostok 🐈😸🐈
I'll let her know :)
Long time fan!
Brave for staring down the cassowary 😅
Dude... NGL, I was fearing for you when I saw the cassowaries.
I have a YELLOW Jaboticaba that tastes like apricot. Fruits are a little fuzzy and it grows very similarly to that first "white" that you tried but the leaves are shorter. Aloha!
I still have to try that one :)
Jaboticaba is so versatile! You can make juice, liquor, wine , jelly, chutney 🤤
The best experience is to get them just straight from the trees!
Awesome
Those look like the muscadine in my backyard once picked.
Flying Foxxxxx!!!! Lets gooo!!
I have a 60 yr old bonsai one that was handed down to me , she's bloody huge
I really want to try these so bbad, but I think it will be quite some time before I see these on sale at my local Wegmans store. I wonder if any to the Central or South American grocery store would have them, but where I live there aren't a ton of those kinds of stores hanging around.
You're welcome, come back any time you like!
I have found these at my local Asian grocery store over in Kentucky, very good!
That's odd, since they are South American. Did the Portuguese spread these around?
@@erikjohnson9223 Maybe so, the store i go to seems to specialize in fruit, I have found an annona hybrid, and frozen Mangosteen there as well.
I am thankful that at least this fruit can be found in markets in the midwest, though you usually have to go to the smaller Asian or Hispanic stores, which means that the price can be a bit high.
It's a shame that it is not available on a regular basis, though.
The Jaboticaba that I have tasted has reminded me of slightly less sweet concord grape juice.
Very tasty.
The funny thing is, the fruits often do make their international debuts in frozen food sections abroad, such as the pulp & juice or even the whole fruits, also so with veggies & other edible plants. They're actually just as nute-dense as as their fresh counterparts & even dried ones, seriously look those up
Now you got me wondering what type I have growing in my garden. One tree got it's first few fruits this year, 5 years after planting it. Though I'm guessing it's probably the Sabara variety as the fruits I've seen on mature trees are fairly big.
i love genuses 🥰
So do I, because they are smart. Love Laura
Reminds me of a middle eastern wild fruits, Ficus sycomorus can you make a video in it? it is a kind of a fig
The sycamore fig (limited to the warmer Jordan Valley, since it is more tropical and characteristic of the Nile Valley) shows up at least twice in the Bible (it is the tree Zaccheus climbed in Luke 20:4, and Amos was described as formerly being "a dresser of sycamore figs" before being called to prophesy in the Northern ykingdom of Israel/Samaria). Interesting tie-ins.
and me too, the first and only time i ever had jaboticaba was at that fruit and spice park....
The spirito-santensis one maybe actually have this name becuse is found on the state of "Espírito Santo" here in Brazil.
Funnily enough Jaboticaba was one of the plants that first got me interested in plants (purely just by looking around online), I always wanted to try making a bonsai of one. Unfortunately Myrtaceae fruit seem to cause an allergic reaction for me (nothing dangerous but it really upsets my stomach to the point of vomiting) so I never ended up doing anything. They still look so tempting though...
As an aside, Jaboticabas are one of those groups of plants that collectors will pay frankly absurd prices to get some particularly rare species/variety which is barely distinguishable from another more common one.
We have one in the local Conservatory. The cauliflory and variegated pealing bark makes the tree (perhaps just that species?) quite handsome.
Just got some jaboticabas myself earlier today
I wonder what wine made out of them might taste like?
Wine is cool, but will they ketchup?
I’d guess like jaboticaba
There is jaboticaba wine 🍷 gotta go to Brazil for that though
@@WeirdExplorer firstly thanks for the reply, always nice to get a direct response, been a viewer since ep 80. I might have to see if there's a way to get jaboticaba's here in the UK to make it myself. Probably easier to get medhrono though!
@@borgmardunkleson2225 Ah yes, one of the greatest episodes
Im in Phoenix Arizona, and I grow the purple, red, white, sabara, and blue vexeter. To me, they taste exactly like grape candy, or grape Hubba Bubba Gum. In other words, they taste like grape candy instead of actual grapes.
Hmm. Roast muscovies in jaboticaba/vinegar sauce. Sounds tasty.
There is even Wine made of it in Brazil by some companies that i would like to taste so much, maybe this channel will one day
I would love to share with you the Cornus canadensis fruit. It's not that great, but it's edible and I don't think you've had it before! If you ever come to Canada and Quebec, don't hesitate to tell us with a community post or something, I could get in touch with you and show you all wild edible fruits I know and you might not have tried yet from here!
"genuses" is fun to type, too!
I was JUST looking up jaboticabas yesterday because I was trying to remember the word for “grows directly on the bark.” The word is cauliflory. Because it looks like cauliflower, I guess?
Im pretty sure I seen this fruit/tree at San Diego Zoo, but it had to be like 40 - 60 feet tall. Had the fruit all the way up and down the trunk. Large dark fruits, like the frist kinds.
Try giant mulchi (pilinia inflata)
I have 200 plus plants here in NZ, with 20 plus varieties(sabara, grimal, paulista,red, yellow, phitrantha, some otto anderson,etc etc, also a few variegated, but dont have white or blue and want them both haha
Me too, I'm in Tauranga wbu. Planting a bunch into the ground this spring 😊
Have you done a video about American Paw Paw varieties? Might be a fun one.
yes I tried many varieties in a video. check the archive at www.weirdexplorer.com 🙂
I would love one like this!
Saying "genuses" is big genus energy
I have heard them compared to muscadine grapes. Perhaps that is just visual (I have tasted beer, bubblegum, and sugar from scuppernongs [a bronze muscadine], not "blueberry yogurt." Have you tried these Southern grapes (Vitis rotundifolia)?
What are the coldest temperature these can tolerate?
Are they at all similar to muscadine?
👍
Excellent work.
Many thanks!
Hope you got to try alot of weird Aussie native fruits when you were here!
so many! I won't be posting them for a while but when I do it will be Australia videos for a long long while
I think I once bought some blue grape seeds from Trade Winds Fruit and tried to start growing it myself. Needless to say, the seeds didn't germinate.
i usually compare the flavor to fruit punch!
Grapes of Wrath for real… Cassowary wow
Hey The History Guy has very interesting Grapefruit history episode!
A duck walks into a bar and asks "Got any jaboticabas?"....
I have no clue why, but every time I see a notification for your videos I immediately click. I'm always in the mood to learn about a rare fruit from a weird explorer, and watch you eat it.
glad to hear it!
"mercy aria"
Thought i would try asking this ive been looking for exotic mints
Peppermint.
Spearmint.
Pineapple Mint.
Orange Mint.
Chocolate Mint.
Ginger Mint.
Horsemint.
Catmint.
Pretty much the Mentha family for my spice shelf but ive been having trouble finding them do you know where i could find them
Are you in the USA or Canada? I have found a diverse selection at Ritcher's Herbs (Canada, but will ship most things, including mint, to the US, apparently without charging an extreme phytosanitary import fee) and some Etsy sellers. I am in the USA, so I can't speak to Europe or other parts of the world. Remember to keep mints controlled in pots (etc), as they are quite stoloniferous/weedy.
@@erikjohnson9223 US
@@erikjohnson9223 they don't even really need it fresh it would be preferred
I have a tree of Jaboticaba in my yard! Tastes good!
i am screaming over here, TWENTY MINUTES OF JABOS???? HELL YEAH
Yesss! 😂
We should go back in time and commission Magritte to paint a picture of this thumbnail!
Ceci n’est pas une pipe? Non! Ce n'est pas un raisin
I wanted t o try this out after I saw it- so I went to an exotic fruit nursery near me and bought a baby sapling for about 10$- little did I know later I would discover it would take TWENTY years for them to mature & start producing fruit... welp
I wonder what the wine of jaboticaba would taste like
for every time you say jaboticaba ima ask you to try ice cream bean fruit 👀
Do not go near the cassowary omfg do you have a death wish?? 😮❤
I got to say, you seem to age backwards, those antioxidants in all those fruits are for sure working
The only people killed by a cassowary had it coming
Best to give them their space