Since I started following you I imagined that coming here would be an amazing experience for you. I'm really happy to see you enjoying yourself and giving some exposure to the country. Hope you had some cas.
Brings back memories of foraging at the "Valley of Death" in Gettysburg. I still my remember my dad telling my sister and I that they must have been soo juicy because of all the blood spilt there.
The harder it is to get a fruit, the better it tastes. Hours of wild berry picking with countless scratches and bug bites, hot and sweaty, then to reap the rewards of a homemade blackberry milkshake or berries and cream, so very worth it. If you have not been blackberry picking in the Pacific Northwest, you really really need to. Sweet, plump, incredibly flavorsome berries, delicious on their own or in any blackberry recipe.
Rubus niveus, the Mysore raspberry, is supposedly the only species practical to grow here in Florida, and not everywhere (I don’t think it can take much cold). Maybe there’s a wild blackberry in north Florida too? I hadn’t even heard of these blackberries before, but I’m more ignorant than I used to think. Fascinating!
I live in the SE USA and foraging for wild blackberries during the summer is one of my favorite childhood memories. My mom would always pull off the road if she spotted a berry bush or some wildflowers that she wanted to pick. Then my sister and I would get out of the van, hopefully armed with a bag or random container, and pick as many ripe berries as we could reach. We lived in an apartment for a while after the divorce and there were amazing huge blackberry brambles behind our building and in the woods behind our building. There was at least one summer with enough rain at the right time for them to be bigger than the end of my finger and not bitter.
Its always amazing to me just how cosmopolitan Rubus is. What a successful genus! Though I'm more of a fan of tropical and subtropical species that have eked their way into warm temperate climates (like the smattering of temperate Myrtaceae, or Diospyros, or Ficus, or all sorts of other examples) its always fun to see temperate groups that have done the reverse and made their home quite solidly in the tropics. Not particularly useful to me right now per se, but its quite a neat little thing to see and I imagine tropical growers appreciate it a lot. I might just have to try some tropical Rubus if I ever end up in a much warmer climate. My goal is the warmer parts of NZ which can probably manage most temperate plants alright along with tropical ones (warm zone 9 is absolutely magical) but if its somewhere warmer I'd definitely look into tropical Rubus. Coming from the PNW where raspberries grow like a weed (one cane this year grew like 15 feet tall with side branches and almost looks like a tree, and 14 plants of a commercial cultivar have been enough to get 2 gallons in one single day's harvest, and make plenty of jam batches in a season) I don't think I could ever give them up, despite how much temperate climates can be frustrating.
The first one, _Rubus glaucus_ Marco said is only found over 2,700 metres (8,800 feet), which is probably not very warm, even in Costa Rica. Probably pretty constant throughout the year, though. So might need to be protected in winter. If you can get seeds, there is one seller on ebay.
@@pattheplanter Yes but the lowland species should be quite tolerant of heat. Plus there are plenty of other tropical Rubus throughout the world. Ebay sellers are pretty hit or miss with plants so I avoid them, and I of course don't need any of these right now. But I'm sure plenty of people would be quite excited to get their hands on a tropical raspberry or blackberry.
@@pattheplanter rubus glaucum also grows in the Andes highlands of Colombia and Ecuador, and is known as "mora" there and commercially grown for its juice and to make ice cream. In Ecuador its probably the most popular native fruit flavor. I took some seeds to Germany and have them growing in pots, my 3 plants are now nearly 4 years old. They can stay outside until late October, I then transfer them to an unheated, badly isolated workshop area of our house, where they spend the winter month, at around 10 centigrade, with some additional lighting due to the very small window. So far I am still waiting for them to bloom and fruit. But when they do, I want to try to cross polinate with German wild blackberry or maybe rasperry and see if I can create a cold hardy variety that can survive German winters outside in the ground. As I completely love the flavor for the same reasons as shown in the video, that would be a dream come true for me.
Blackberries gow wild everywhere where my mom grew up. . As a kid she would wade into the thorny bushes to collect the berries and get all scratched up, but she said that they were so good and worth the pain.
Great video! I love seeing and experiencing things that I would never get to otherwise. I felt like we were there with you trying the local berry varieties, how fun & pleasantly specific!
I love foraging berries. I just moved from my native state of Wisconsin to Washington and can't wait to see what they have. I think some people choose ornamental cloudberries for landscaping in Seattle. I don't believe its the same as a cloudberry but it is a very sweet blackberry that's colored orange. They have to be supersoft in order to be sweet though. Very small picking window and very easily destroyed fruit.
I know _Rubus_ species are found native in most countries of the world, except for parts of northern Brazil, the Northern Territory of Australia, the southeastern tip of Arabia and parts of Africa in a band between the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer. However, it still gives me agriculture shock to see someone blackberrying in Costa Rica.
You can also fine blueberries (Vaccinium sp.) Growing in the Costa Rican highlands. They are much more sour than regular store-bought blueberries, but the Costa Rican blueberry plants can get several meters tall!! So you get a blueberry tree 🌳
This berry grows in huge amounts in my fathers garden during the fall season, they are very sour, but will become sweet if you let it stay on the plant long enough for the berry to get big and soft.
I love seeing bushes of native produce growing amid flowers on the side of roads/tracks. We never get stuff like this in Australia unless it's specifically cultivated, which is very rare.
if you have something very sour that is otherwise useful (eg winemaking) a better option than adding sugar is often calcium hydroxide. the food-safe version is sold as "pickling lime". the calcium salts tend to be insoluble and settle out, but they are harmless. the usual suggestions involve sodium salts (eg bicarb) but these change the flavor a lot more, and add sodium to your diet
We had a near TRAGEDY due to a Osage Orange.... We have an EXTREMELY LARGE water bowl outside under the faucet.. With 2 Osage Orange trees just above and leaning from a hill behind our house. An Osage Orange fell into the water dish sometime during the night. Our Black Lab Puppy got a drink and shortly after started throwing up. She's ok and we have moved and dumped the water bowl.. Some are wondering why I'm telling you all this... It's so if you have an Osage Orange tree around make sure you remove the fruits and discard safely.. We were a bit worried about little ZU ZU... Thanks for letting me spread the word..
Have you done Japanese Quince? Only ask cause I have a bush in front of my house that's dropping fruit & I have no idea what to do with them. (I know they're edible, but not straight from the plant & I don't want to waste them)
Grew up foraging for blackberries as a kid mum used to make loads of jam unfortunately now it is classified as a noxious weed so they poison them so even if you do find some they can't be eaten. We also have a native Australian blackberry. But they are hard to find because the fruits aren't suitable to put in punets to sell but the jam is wonderful.
Hello there. Do you happen to know if Himalayan red cherry birch cherries are edible? I've been trying to find out the answer to this question for over a year. All my reaserch has been inconclusive. Enjoy your channel. Have a nice day.
Want more foraging, there is a playlist! ua-cam.com/play/PLvGFkMrO1ZxKeJnyy987ptAB7_9YkVThn.html
Since I started following you I imagined that coming here would be an amazing experience for you. I'm really happy to see you enjoying yourself and giving some exposure to the country. Hope you had some cas.
Cas is coming soon!
Thank you Marco for guiding Jared and sharing so much information with us! Thank you Jared for recording your experience for us too 💙
Take care.
lots more to come!
@@WeirdExplorer awesome, looking forward to them! Thanks 😊
Looks like the hill of death was worth it! I also enjoyed Marco's input and his knowledge of the local berries. Great video!
Marco is a wealth of knowledge! I checked out his online store ( I collect carnivorous plants too). Lots of neat things😁. Glad he could come along!
"Was it worth it? Absolutely"
Thats great to hear
Brings back memories of foraging at the "Valley of Death" in Gettysburg. I still my remember my dad telling my sister and I that they must have been soo juicy because of all the blood spilt there.
that is... frightening
My mouth was watering as you were describing how sour the berries were. I love sour fruits, btw.
HAHA! The Hill of Death is only deadly if you are a reckless driver though. Some amazing sights
It really wasn't all that bad!
I can listen to Marco talk all day haha
The harder it is to get a fruit, the better it tastes. Hours of wild berry picking with countless scratches and bug bites, hot and sweaty, then to reap the rewards of a homemade blackberry milkshake or berries and cream, so very worth it.
If you have not been blackberry picking in the Pacific Northwest, you really really need to. Sweet, plump, incredibly flavorsome berries, delicious on their own or in any blackberry recipe.
Love your videos and information on fruits we aren't familiar with... It's like a travel log with native fruits.
Thanks.
The Hill of Death!? 😳 I'm just glad you made it through alright. Thanks for another entertaining and informative video.
Those tart blackberries sound awesome!
Rubus niveus, the Mysore raspberry, is supposedly the only species practical to grow here in Florida, and not everywhere (I don’t think it can take much cold). Maybe there’s a wild blackberry in north Florida too?
I hadn’t even heard of these blackberries before, but I’m more ignorant than I used to think. Fascinating!
I live in the SE USA and foraging for wild blackberries during the summer is one of my favorite childhood memories. My mom would always pull off the road if she spotted a berry bush or some wildflowers that she wanted to pick. Then my sister and I would get out of the van, hopefully armed with a bag or random container, and pick as many ripe berries as we could reach. We lived in an apartment for a while after the divorce and there were amazing huge blackberry brambles behind our building and in the woods behind our building. There was at least one summer with enough rain at the right time for them to be bigger than the end of my finger and not bitter.
Here in the Canary islands we are in blackberry season right now! They are great
I just looked up. Wikipedia lists 1407 species under the Rubus genus! That's twice the number of fruits reviewed by this channel.
It's an impossible job, but somebody has to do it
Its always amazing to me just how cosmopolitan Rubus is. What a successful genus! Though I'm more of a fan of tropical and subtropical species that have eked their way into warm temperate climates (like the smattering of temperate Myrtaceae, or Diospyros, or Ficus, or all sorts of other examples) its always fun to see temperate groups that have done the reverse and made their home quite solidly in the tropics. Not particularly useful to me right now per se, but its quite a neat little thing to see and I imagine tropical growers appreciate it a lot. I might just have to try some tropical Rubus if I ever end up in a much warmer climate. My goal is the warmer parts of NZ which can probably manage most temperate plants alright along with tropical ones (warm zone 9 is absolutely magical) but if its somewhere warmer I'd definitely look into tropical Rubus. Coming from the PNW where raspberries grow like a weed (one cane this year grew like 15 feet tall with side branches and almost looks like a tree, and 14 plants of a commercial cultivar have been enough to get 2 gallons in one single day's harvest, and make plenty of jam batches in a season) I don't think I could ever give them up, despite how much temperate climates can be frustrating.
The first one, _Rubus glaucus_ Marco said is only found over 2,700 metres (8,800 feet), which is probably not very warm, even in Costa Rica. Probably pretty constant throughout the year, though. So might need to be protected in winter. If you can get seeds, there is one seller on ebay.
@@pattheplanter Yes but the lowland species should be quite tolerant of heat. Plus there are plenty of other tropical Rubus throughout the world. Ebay sellers are pretty hit or miss with plants so I avoid them, and I of course don't need any of these right now. But I'm sure plenty of people would be quite excited to get their hands on a tropical raspberry or blackberry.
@@pattheplanter rubus glaucum also grows in the Andes highlands of Colombia and Ecuador, and is known as "mora" there and commercially grown for its juice and to make ice cream. In Ecuador its probably the most popular native fruit flavor. I took some seeds to Germany and have them growing in pots, my 3 plants are now nearly 4 years old. They can stay outside until late October, I then transfer them to an unheated, badly isolated workshop area of our house, where they spend the winter month, at around 10 centigrade, with some additional lighting due to the very small window. So far I am still waiting for them to bloom and fruit. But when they do, I want to try to cross polinate with German wild blackberry or maybe rasperry and see if I can create a cold hardy variety that can survive German winters outside in the ground. As I completely love the flavor for the same reasons as shown in the video, that would be a dream come true for me.
Ever since I've discovered this channel, I've been way more into fruit.
Blackberries gow wild everywhere where my mom grew up. . As a kid she would wade into the thorny bushes to collect the berries and get all scratched up, but she said that they were so good and worth the pain.
We were very lucky for finding all those berries!
"one small bug on it".... yeah you can never be 100% vegetarian when you like to forage in the wild :P
Great video! I love seeing and experiencing things that I would never get to otherwise. I felt like we were there with you trying the local berry varieties, how fun & pleasantly specific!
I love foraging berries. I just moved from my native state of Wisconsin to Washington and can't wait to see what they have. I think some people choose ornamental cloudberries for landscaping in Seattle. I don't believe its the same as a cloudberry but it is a very sweet blackberry that's colored orange. They have to be supersoft in order to be sweet though. Very small picking window and very easily destroyed fruit.
Cool, that might be salmonberry or creeping raspberry (ua-cam.com/video/oVutpLzQfng/v-deo.html)
I know _Rubus_ species are found native in most countries of the world, except for parts of northern Brazil, the Northern Territory of Australia, the southeastern tip of Arabia and parts of Africa in a band between the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer. However, it still gives me agriculture shock to see someone blackberrying in Costa Rica.
You know in Costa Rica we also have our wild blueberry variants : Vaccinium consanguinium
coming soon!
You can also fine blueberries (Vaccinium sp.) Growing in the Costa Rican highlands. They are much more sour than regular store-bought blueberries, but the Costa Rican blueberry plants can get several meters tall!! So you get a blueberry tree 🌳
Jared has recently done the Costa Rican blueberry. The video shouldn't be hard to find.
Rubus glaucus was also the one you tried in Colombia, albeit domesticated, so to say.
Hello again! Nice vid as usual. I probably should watch the whole video first, but, have you ever eaten " wine grapes" before...
So very interesting Jared,thanks for showcasing.
Glad you enjoyed it
This berry grows in huge amounts in my fathers garden during the fall season, they are very sour, but will become sweet if you let it stay on the plant long enough for the berry to get big and soft.
Costa Rican fruits are insane.
I love seeing bushes of native produce growing amid flowers on the side of roads/tracks. We never get stuff like this in Australia unless it's specifically cultivated, which is very rare.
Very cool vid, xcellent!
Glad you liked it!
if you have something very sour that is otherwise useful (eg winemaking) a better option than adding sugar is often calcium hydroxide. the food-safe version is sold as "pickling lime". the calcium salts tend to be insoluble and settle out, but they are harmless. the usual suggestions involve sodium salts (eg bicarb) but these change the flavor a lot more, and add sodium to your diet
I'd love to try those blackberries! I'll have to take a look online to see if any US nurseries carry plants or seeds!
The guide guy is awesome 😎💯
This makes me want to get some raspberry or blackberry plants to grow at my house
Marco sounds like a cool dude.
Thank you for this video! 😀🌹
You should do a video on some of our native blackberries. I think they're better tasting than the non-native, cultivated ones.
V. consanguineum, the Costa Rican blueberry?
Consanguine, what's that, like Shared Blood?
coming up next week !
We had a near TRAGEDY due to a Osage Orange.... We have an EXTREMELY LARGE water bowl outside under the faucet.. With 2 Osage Orange trees just above and leaning from a hill behind our house.
An Osage Orange fell into the water dish sometime during the night.
Our Black Lab Puppy got a drink and shortly after started throwing up. She's ok and we have moved and dumped the water bowl..
Some are wondering why I'm telling you all this... It's so if you have an Osage Orange tree around make sure you remove the fruits and discard safely.. We were a bit worried about little ZU ZU...
Thanks for letting me spread the word..
Sorry to hear it!
Marco is a fantastic co-host!! Can we keep him?
That looks great! Is such a wine available to purchase? 💖😋
Marco is on youtube he can speak english, time to start posting videos i guess, i subed.
blackberries make the best jam 🤤
It is a noxious weed here in New Zealand.
Makes a great crumble.
Have you done Japanese Quince? Only ask cause I have a bush in front of my house that's dropping fruit & I have no idea what to do with them. (I know they're edible, but not straight from the plant & I don't want to waste them)
6:56 These rosters made the video better
Marco is super cool
Maybe Jared needs to include a flavour intensity scale?
The hill of death reminds me of rural New Zealand.
Grew up foraging for blackberries as a kid mum used to make loads of jam unfortunately now it is classified as a noxious weed so they poison them so even if you do find some they can't be eaten.
We also have a native Australian blackberry. But they are hard to find because the fruits aren't suitable to put in punets to sell but the jam is wonderful.
Nice!
Hello there. Do you happen to know if Himalayan red cherry birch cherries are edible?
I've been trying to find out the answer to this question for over a year. All my reaserch has been inconclusive.
Enjoy your channel. Have a nice day.
PLEASE you NEED to go hang out with Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't. He is super educsted in plant species and just a joy to watch
I was just picturing poisonous berries when I heard hill of death lol
how do you meet new people like marco? how do i meet people? how do i muster the courage to leave my apartment?
Are you talking about tannin when you say lip smacking kind of flavor?
I use to find mulberry or blackberries in my neighborhood woods sad part of the woods were torn down to make ugly modern houses
Ok....THIS IS WHY THE BLACKBERRY NEEDS TO BE THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT🤣🤣 DRIVING??? SCARY....THORNS??? YIIIIIKES🤣
Have you tried the blackberry wine? We need a report.
you should make a video with crime pays but botany doesn't.
2h ago
Btw dont reply to comments! Tag someone and make a new comment- youtube comments are broken !!!
"Was it worth it? Absolutely." You're only saying that because you didn't die.