AUTUMN OLIVES - A Foraged Fruit That Sparkles

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AUTUMN OLIVES - A Foraged Fruit That Sparkles - Weird Fruit Explorer

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Ep 548. AUTUMN OLIVES - A Foraged Fruit That Sparkles - Weird Fruit Explorer
Binomial Name: Elaeagnus umbellata
Location: New York, USA
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@WeirdExplorer 3 жыл бұрын

Check out These related Species of fruit: Indian Olives: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z8-mgth-2Ju3fYU.html Goumi Berries: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r7BiqN2inpzenqM.html

@davemi00 3 жыл бұрын

What about - Russian Olive trees ??

@joeyprince9183 3 жыл бұрын

💛💛💛💛

@WeAreAllOneNature 3 жыл бұрын

Elaeagnus pronunciation = eh-lee-ag-nuss.

@carak525 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats on 200k! (ノ￣ω￣)ノ

@troyclayton 3 жыл бұрын

It's illegal to plant, import, export, buy, or sell this plant where I live in Maine. They're also prohibited in New York. Check you own laws, or just don't plant it because it's bad news just about everywhere in the US. You can't really stop birds from spreading the seeds.

@markiangooley 3 жыл бұрын

No surprise. Lots of plants are considered noxious weeds in the warm climate of Florida, but there are plenty of other pests that can thrive in colder climates...

@dzvw 3 жыл бұрын

Everything is illegal in the states nowadays.

@ericlivingston8027 3 жыл бұрын

@@dzvw Some things are illegal for a reason though. I know there is a kind of olive tree where I live that takes up a bunch of water and we only get 15 inches of rainfall a year where I live. Others may be very invasive or may harbor pests. A good example is you can only buy citrus from your state if you are a citrus growing state because they are worried about pests crossing state lines.

@wyrmeleon2002 3 жыл бұрын

I live in New York and not only is our back woods full of wild bushes, you can buy the berries at some farmer’s markets. Of course I don’t think you’re wrong, you’re 100% right. They’re a (very tasty) invasive species.

@MaxOakland 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. They’re extremely invasive

@kaiganardea9275 3 жыл бұрын

The invasive ones in the South taste pretty good. Definitely have the tomato flavor

@BradyAlley 8 ай бұрын

I've ate some and i see no tomato resemblance. Live in TN

@themagnanimous1246 3 жыл бұрын

When I'm out working in forests around where I live, I like to scare the ppl I'm with by eating the stuff I find on the trees. The edible stuff of course! These are some of my favorites, I pickled them once and they were like capers!

@kyrosanimates4830 3 жыл бұрын

These seem so interesting looking i mean they sparkle that's such a curious feature.

@hiromikami 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh, I just noticed today 199k almost 200k subscribers! It's gonna happen really soon!!

@alecity4877 3 жыл бұрын

when reading your comment I went to check, exactly 199,000 subscribers, not one more, not one less.

@WeirdExplorer 3 жыл бұрын

🎉🎉🎉

@oscard.lisboa6105 3 жыл бұрын

@@alecity4877 there should be one more now

@cebmom4ever 3 жыл бұрын

203K as of today!!

@HarryToeface 3 жыл бұрын

"I know some people" as he laughs menacingly. Are you hiding something from us? O.o

@FioraTheMasquerade 3 жыл бұрын

I have an autumn olive in my backyard right now 😂 the berries are black, though

@FioraTheMasquerade 3 жыл бұрын

@John Marx Can you tell me what it might be? None of my play identifier apps or google searches turn up anything. The foliage looks like an autumn olive does, its about 8 feet tall with those sliver-backed leaves and it has the same sweet, spicy smelling flowers in early spring that make black, round berries in fall

@koolkatkenzie1491 3 жыл бұрын

Black chokeberry maybe?

@FioraTheMasquerade 3 жыл бұрын

@@koolkatkenzie1491 Ohhh that's a fair possibility. Thank you!

@erwinbrubacker7488 3 ай бұрын

@@FioraTheMasqueraderussian olive, maybe ?

@erwinbrubacker7488 3 ай бұрын

Russian olive, maybe ?

@debiesubaugher 3 жыл бұрын

I love these berries, we make so many things out of them.

@andie_pants 3 жыл бұрын

The dad with three kids on his bike! ♥️

@ChezkiS 3 жыл бұрын

Elaeagnus is a large family, and I think that the most prominent characteristic of all members in this family is that they are quite astringent until they are fully ripe. I tend to divide the flavors into two groups: * There's the plum/cherry/currant kind of flavor of E. multiflora (Goumi), E. pungens (those are the ones that I have locally, here in Israel), and the other species that you tasted in your videos -- E. umbellata and E. latifolia. * Then there are the fruit that have a drier texture, mealy or powdery, and taste (to me) like Petit-Beurre biscuits -- mainly E. angustifolia, but there's the regular small fruit and there's a variety with huge fruit, called igde in Turkish or Senjed in Persian.

@ChezkiS 3 жыл бұрын

In fact, E. angustifolia is known to my family (my children and grandchildren) as the "Cookie Fruit". :-)

@killisys 3 жыл бұрын

I've had the ruby ones before but I think they were fairly overripe. They had a raspberry yoghurt kind of taste.

@mikejanson3052 3 жыл бұрын

I made the mistake of trying unripe ones of these. They were so astringent that is was painful. They grow all over the place down here.

@elmartilo1686 3 жыл бұрын

Where has this channel been all my life 😍

@WeirdExplorer 3 жыл бұрын

welcome aboard

@alixtheprofessionalcatherd6850 3 жыл бұрын

This is the golden part of KZfaq!

@tylerjones1574 3 жыл бұрын

Can you ask wanderlust to send you the tangerine myrtle? It sounds great and they sell the plants, I'm just curious to what the fruit tastes like. Also the leaves of some myrtle are supposed to be good for making tea.

@renato2354 3 жыл бұрын

Finally youtube suggests a channel that is worth it, this is really interesting

@GolosinasArgentinas 3 жыл бұрын

I'm looking forward to the *Bread* Olives!

@StuffandThings_ 3 жыл бұрын

Just got myself an amber autumn olive! Nice timing, now I'm excited for mine to fruit. They're not really invasive in the PNW region and they're great for adding nitrogen to the soil, which is nice.

@familyfruit9833 3 жыл бұрын

This channel is such a great resource for those of us planning and planting food forests/edible forest gardens! Added this one to the playlist I'm keeping of reviews for fruits listed in Martin Crawford's book 'Creating a Forest Garden'.

@videosformybrain3606 3 жыл бұрын

I think it's crazy how long it took to find the perfect channel for me, glad it's finally here though. Fruit lovers unite!

@WeirdExplorer 3 жыл бұрын

welcome!

@youtube.commentator 3 жыл бұрын

I'm going to start eating every little yellow or red berry I see on a tree or bush until I find ones that taste as great as you say these do!

@kwaitefuni9152 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats on hitting 200k!! Awesome stuff!

@cholcombe973 3 жыл бұрын

I love that I found this channel. I actually grow quite a lot of the fruits you review here :-)

@WeirdExplorer 3 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

@DanTheFireman 3 жыл бұрын

In the late 70s thru 80s I was heavily into the Rare Fruit Council in Miami and used to surf with the founder, Bill Whitman who was quite a unique individual. He was the only person to fruit mangosteen in the continental US before the tree succumbed to a cold front. We spent a lot of time at the USDA facility in South Miami and they had a hedge of Lingaro (Elaeagnus philippinensis), cool silver speckled dark red oblong fruits on a beautiful semi-weeping bush. Have you ever done Carissa grandiflora, makes an awesome fluorescent magenta jelly - after you skim off the latex which floats to the top of the pot.You've got me on the hunt. Subscribed.

@apropostt 3 жыл бұрын

Goumi berries are actually a bit more useful to me because they ripen when almost nothing else has.

@joshharnrss4306 3 жыл бұрын

I love ur content it’s amazin I’m a tree collector so this is right down my alley love ur channel

@nova0241 3 жыл бұрын

I have a large tree in my backyard (ruby variety). They are usually quite astringent, but I find that the little white flecks on the outside of the berry usually impart a lot of that astringency. We make jam and fruit leather with it, but I bet you could make a good ketchup with it Jared lol

@JTMusicbox 3 жыл бұрын

These are everywhere! I had no idea they were edible.

@rjbuckets8897 2 жыл бұрын

You're such a hero to me, thank you so much. Your research is really helping me a lot!!!

@WeirdExplorer 2 жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

@jennifercarriger6168 3 жыл бұрын

I forage for these during the fall months up here near Glens Falls/Queensbury NY. I have only found the red ones which have four times the lycopene of a tomato. Making them into jelly is really weird. The cooking berries smell like tomato sauce but the resulting jelly tastes like cranberry jelly. You can tell when they are ripe when they come off the branch easily. A gentle tap or or brush should cause them to fall right into your hand.

@jennifercarriger6168 3 жыл бұрын

Also, they are considered a noxious invasive because they make the soil they grow in better strangely enough. They were brought to America for the purposes of soil retention. Birds, deer and other animals love their berries, spreading them everywhere, and their growing habits cause them to spread further. Plants that love rich soil grow well around them because they lock nitrogen into the soil. Farmers have taken advantage of this by planting them next to fruit to get them to bear more fruit. Unfortunately, this is bad news for our native poor soil loving plants, which is why they are considered noxious. Still I can still think of worse noxious invasives. I have seen a bittersweet vine nearly choke out an kill an autumn olive bush, likely out of sheer ravenous hunger for the nitrogen it provides.

@DanielSPark-by6cm 3 жыл бұрын

I live in the tree's native range and I remember my grandmother used to make syrup out of these. Good old days.

@lordfunkythe11th43 3 жыл бұрын

Berry cool. Please don’t yell at me.

@Hortifox_the_gardener 3 жыл бұрын

Please berry in mind how lame this joke was!

@lordfunkythe11th43 3 жыл бұрын

@@Hortifox_the_gardener Berry good observation.

@dimensionalemerald974 3 жыл бұрын

@@lordfunkythe11th43 I berry laughed

@Hortifox_the_gardener 3 жыл бұрын

It's a fruitless effort with you bunch of berries!

@feralkevin 3 жыл бұрын

One of my favorites. Been growing them for years. Have named a few varieties and always trying more

@mandab.3180 3 жыл бұрын

olive your content 👌🏻

@odah7785 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve made jam out of it before. Good way to use them and make sure the seeds won’t spread as much.

@jeff6899 3 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed this ! Tried to grow several autumn olive varieties here in the low metro Phoenix interior desert...with some heavy filtered shade & a microclimate...may try again...but just couldn't get them all the way thru the latter part of the brutal summer...

@sinisterthoughts2896 3 жыл бұрын

It looks like your about to hit 200k! Congrats! I'm pretty sure the Instagram worthy profile pic is responsible. Don't underestimate the power of a pink pineapple.

@WeirdExplorer 3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@substandardtim 3 жыл бұрын

Easiest place to find these is around man-made lakes and reservoirs. Decades ago the government planted these on purpose as erosion control.

@Zsy6 3 жыл бұрын

And the moisture makes the fruits a bit better too!

@claytondavidson6308 3 жыл бұрын

Ooh, that makes sense, we have them nearby some old strip mines.

@MonMon-uy8jt 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I really enjoy watching your videos! God Bless you

@WeirdExplorer 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

@jeffreym68 3 жыл бұрын

Never heard of these. Thanks!

@MintyFarts 3 жыл бұрын

These are invasive where I live, I didn't know they were edible! I'm going to look into it more to make sure the variety here is.

@mitchellboyce9853 3 жыл бұрын

I love autumn olives! A friend and I were reading up on local forageable fruits a couple years ago and our guidebook described them as "pleasantly astringent." We laughed about that because it sounded like nonsense, but after eating them, it's actually pretty apt. The feeling they leave in my mouth is kind of akin to cranberries; I would call it astringent, but it wouldn't be the same without it.

@kateg8654 3 жыл бұрын

congrats on 200k

@claytondavidson6308 3 жыл бұрын

Cool, I had these growing by my childhood home in Kentucky Had no idea what they were called Weirdly enough, despite apparently being invasive, they didn't grow anywhere else except that one stretch nearby our house.

@Zsy6 3 жыл бұрын

All Elaeagnus are astringent until dead ripe, and it can be hard to get them exactly at that stage, but when you do they're really delicious.

@emilieloveskiwi 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats on 200k subs!

@WeirdExplorer 3 жыл бұрын

🎉

@PeasLovePineapples Жыл бұрын

I see that they are deemed invasive, but I have one on this property for a couple of years, and before me the prev owner for 20 years and it has never spread, it is still just the one tree, I would love to have more of these trees. My neighbors don't have it at all. I wish they did I love collecting the berries. I am in the south and when it is ripe it is very sweet and good, no tomato flavor for me. Great for making jams! I do have to fight the birds for the berries.

@davidburke7858 Жыл бұрын

Tell me about it, I live in virginia and I just discovered these today, Looked up information and saw that they were deemed Edible! Same thing, I've lived here for 2 years on my property and just noticed the Bush like tree an saw the birds eating it this morning, which gathered my intrist... I don't gather tomato either, I get more of a tart Grape or pomegranate feel / taste from the berries... 😊

@PeasLovePineapples Жыл бұрын

@@davidburke7858 yes exactly, perfect description of the flavor

@cjsh2441 3 жыл бұрын

I have some autumn olives (silver leaf/Buffalo Berry) growing 10 Ft. from my apt in Mississippi. Also I have seen them grow in north west Georgia..

@-jank-willson 3 жыл бұрын

I have those that grow on my college campus in western N.C., but they are long and oval shaped

@mcconlogue1898 11 ай бұрын

Tons of these in western Pennsylvania. They paid people to plant them in the 1930's to reclaim mined areas. There's probably at least 100 bushes within a mile of my house.

@SpaceCase100 3 жыл бұрын

The cold open..nice.

@dawnkirk2838 3 жыл бұрын

I ordered an amber autumn olive last year from One Green World. It produced a couple dozen berries right away. I like them. I'm planning to keep it in check. They also say birds don't notice the yellow color as much. Do not know if that's true.

@durtwizzerd4432 3 жыл бұрын

these are a prolific invader in CT. if you want to find them in abundance and non astringent you need to harvest them mid to late October or after the first frost.

@bencartner9204 3 жыл бұрын

If you juice these with a slow juicer you get a clear juice that taste mild and sweet, and the red pulp that can be made into fruit leather. Interesting how it separates itself.

@PowerTom286 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting, Jared.

@mdangelo120950 3 жыл бұрын

ripe Autumn olives berries are really tasty

@joshharnrss4306 3 жыл бұрын

This is ALL OVER our small farm if we don’t mow our fields 2xs a year it will take over!!! But the pollinators love it and so do I “win it’s kept in check”!!!

@MushroomMagpie 3 жыл бұрын

The natural ones growing up here in Saskatchewan taste nice when fully ripe, but tart!

@kaykepop4084 3 жыл бұрын

Never knew what these were. As a kid my friend's and I came across the amber ones playing one day and dared each other to try them. I remember they were tart, made my mouth pucker😅 and then a light plant like flavor (can not think what to compare that taste to besides a plant/leaf). We did not enjoy them and never tried them again.

@the_air_ocelot 3 жыл бұрын

There are some that grow at at camp I go to and I eat them whenever I go

@zedianzediessi 3 жыл бұрын

I will collect every fruit you review and grow it in my food forrest

@dgundeadforge17 3 жыл бұрын

There is a big bush behind my art building i walk by and eat them when i was on campus.

@jollyfamily9138 3 жыл бұрын

Have you tried Linden tree seeds? They are easy to find growing in cities, and they taste a bit like pumpkin seeds.

@troypriddythr 3 жыл бұрын

the secret is .. dont eat them tell they have had a couple good frost on them..then there a sweet tart cranberry flavor here on my farm in southern IL

@onlockmobileskateshop113 3 жыл бұрын

Jared guess what??!!! I'm an Australian viewer and have been hunting for the Achacha for months now and finally found them!! A 5KG BOX OF THEM. so good. Bit of a resin taste from the rind I don't like. Kinda lemoney near the seed. Mmmmm

@gristlevonraben 3 жыл бұрын

very cool. never heard of these. did you ever think this path of exploration would get so far and big?

@WeirdExplorer 3 жыл бұрын

I had no clue it would get to this point

@gristlevonraben 3 жыл бұрын

@@WeirdExplorer I loved your channel from the very first video I saw, and have since!

@cebmom4ever 3 жыл бұрын

I think I have these growing in my yard. I have several bushes that look like those. How can i tell for sure. I would like to eat them if they are the correct berry. I live in upstate NY.

@sinisterthoughts2896 3 жыл бұрын

Ah! Silver berries! I thought I recognized those.

@dbadagna 3 жыл бұрын

Can you add when you picked these? This video was uploaded in March, but I thought these ripen around August or September.

@scumteet 3 жыл бұрын

These things are tasty when ripe.

@cazhalsey8877 3 жыл бұрын

I love fresh autumn olives, but they have to be fully ripe to have the best flavor

@musaid9835 3 жыл бұрын

Hello, got here early today.

@moshpitjo1146 3 жыл бұрын

A foraged fruit that sparkles, just like the stars in space

@ericlivingston8027 3 жыл бұрын

In my experience a lot of plants from Asia are just much faster growing and have the potential to be very invasive. White mulberry is very fast growing and is taking over in America, peaches are from Asia and are very fast growing and Chinese Wisteria is known to take over and be massively invasive.

@i5usko 11 ай бұрын

Just got super dry mouth from a nibble of a red one. It looked ripe bit it was extremely astringent with I hate.

@telotawa 3 жыл бұрын

when did you pick those ones grown locally?

@jamesross1003 3 жыл бұрын

Wonder if you could brine the unripe berries to actually make an olive substitute?

@diannaodman2847 3 жыл бұрын

have them the golden ones, not to impressed with flavor. also have the goumi (sweet scarlet) like them best when three so called pass there prim they get a little rubbery but get much more sweeter. use them for jellys and wine

@ivanananananana 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I had a fruit class in high school and I wish you were my teacher

@elishields6397 3 жыл бұрын

Hi!

@someguyyoujustmetbyyyan5911 3 жыл бұрын

You should review mor artocarpus

@sdfkjgh 3 жыл бұрын

5:39 Will it ketchup?

@jaysmok2893 3 жыл бұрын

A good friend of mine had done some.research on harvesting Autumn Olives and he said they are best tasting after it frosts. So maybe there's a bletting effect?

@WeirdExplorer 3 жыл бұрын

good tip!

@jaysmok2893 3 жыл бұрын

He used to.dehydrate pureed autumn olives to make fruit leather. His recipe wasn't producing the right texture, but it was very tasty. If he were still alive he would probably have perfected it by now.

@gearsmoke 3 жыл бұрын

\o/ Yes! :D

@mealex303 3 жыл бұрын

have u had fresh goji berrys???

@WeirdExplorer 3 жыл бұрын

yep! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/acWdg7Vk16qzYac.html

@zsandmann 3 жыл бұрын

Eel-E-Ag-Nus

@bean_pasteyt8246 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe make a ketchup or mustard out of these?

@claimhsolais3466 3 жыл бұрын

Selected hybrids/cultivars are sweet, granted they grow under the right requirements, such as the necessary parts of potassium. The ones you had aren't that sweet nor large because they're ornamental cultivars, and not propagated for their fruits.

@Zakkattack54 3 жыл бұрын

Sour, sweet, gone!

@benjaminbroudy2982 3 жыл бұрын

1:42 "I know some people" every drug dealer, mafia leader, and fruit fanatic (including me)

@xavierprotocols 9 ай бұрын

They get bigger than that, those plants are likely young. They get bigger as the plant ages.

@dittocopys 3 жыл бұрын

First they're sour, then they're sweet. I miss sour patch kids commercials

@damiensylver5900 3 жыл бұрын

i wish i can get berry that but it doesnt grow here ._.

@Mrpurple75 3 жыл бұрын

Kinda remind me of goji berries

@petrmoric1184 3 жыл бұрын

Should I stay tuned for more footage from that adventure beyond the clip at the end of this video? 👀 As in have you found anything else of interest on the trip?

@WeirdExplorer 3 жыл бұрын

that was just a park in NYC, I didn't see anything else there