DEAD MAN'S FINGERS: Alien Looking Fruit With a Surprising Flavor - Weird Fruit Explorer

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  • Episode 456: Dead Man's Fingers
    Location: North America (Grown in Washington)
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Komentáře • 366

  • @WeirdExplorer
    @WeirdExplorer  Před 4 lety +37

    Looks like I'm long over due for another top ten video on weirdest looking fruit.
    Here's an ancient one: czcams.com/video/hJxNQqpEbK0/video.html

    • @kidbogus3731
      @kidbogus3731 Před 4 lety +1

      "Make your own joke there" unlocked a part of my mind I never knew existed

    • @JesterClips_
      @JesterClips_ Před 3 lety +1

      .

    • @durpshady7751
      @durpshady7751 Před 2 lety

      Damn I feel bad for your male anatomy then 🙄🙄🙄. Jkjk xD

  • @foolonthehill8410
    @foolonthehill8410 Před 4 lety +207

    Tom Nook: they smell like watermelon, they taste like watermelon... yep! They’re 100% watermelon!

  • @emilywarner7707
    @emilywarner7707 Před 4 lety +171

    That was surprising. I was expecting something like tamarind

    • @fruitlove8842
      @fruitlove8842 Před 4 lety +4

      Emily Warner same

    • @HaydenX
      @HaydenX Před 4 lety +8

      I felt the same way...and then I looked up tamarind's actual genetic stuff...did you know tamarind is part of Fabaceae (Fava Bean family)? So Tamarind has a lot more in common with lentils than it does with this fruit. I've been eating tamarind for decades without ever knowing that. I always thought the tamarind pod looked similar to a pea pod...and now I know why.

    • @collecter3456
      @collecter3456 Před 3 lety +4

      @@HaydenX Look at black and honey locust trees. They are very similar to tamarind. They are all in the same family, even though they are in a different genus.

    • @MrMikkyn
      @MrMikkyn Před 2 lety

      same

  • @chairshoe81
    @chairshoe81 Před 4 lety +194

    i had a russian blue cat growing up named rasputin, cant say i ever saw him poop blue tho

    • @PedanticAntics
      @PedanticAntics Před 4 lety

      chairshoe81 is....
      is he still alive?

    • @MidnighttArtz
      @MidnighttArtz Před 4 lety +7

      RA RA RASPUTIN LOVER OF THE RUSSIAN QUEEN, THERE WAS A CAT THAT REALLY WAS GONE

    • @nikokareno4156
      @nikokareno4156 Před 4 lety

      RA RA RASPUTIN, is dead. Why does everyone still seem to talk about him so much? In multiple countries.

    • @boffle539
      @boffle539 Před 4 lety +3

      Niko Kareno cuz it’s a fucking song

    • @brendasanderson7538
      @brendasanderson7538 Před 4 lety

      What a great name for a cat 🤣

  • @yahannahemion3079
    @yahannahemion3079 Před 3 lety +8

    Growing up my Dad was a produce was manager and loved bring home strange and exotic fruits and veggies home for us to try. Thank you for bringing my childhood memories alive on a global scale. We grew up with the motto, you cant say you dont like something unless you have tried it.With every video I find myself researching the health benefits, where and how I can purchase it and how I can use it in my life. Thank you

  • @MsKetchupBlaBla
    @MsKetchupBlaBla Před 4 lety +62

    This sounds like it would make a great ice cream flavor!

  • @let_uslunch8884
    @let_uslunch8884 Před 4 lety +46

    Contrary to some risqué comments I think dead man's fingers is a pretty spot on name.

  • @13gondolla37
    @13gondolla37 Před 4 lety +31

    "Do it with people that you like, and you'll probably be a-okay." Life advise from the fruit dude.

  • @lezardvaleth2304
    @lezardvaleth2304 Před 4 lety +21

    This actually looks more like a tamarind, except, y'know, blue.

  • @septriyanaputra6269
    @septriyanaputra6269 Před 4 lety +24

    So it's related to akebia, the outside look like a mix of a bean and tamarind, the pulp inside look like passion fruit, but smell and taste like watermelon.

  • @StephanieLeighG
    @StephanieLeighG Před 4 lety +10

    The shape might be disturbingly lumpy, but the color and scale pattern are pretty cute.

  • @catyear75
    @catyear75 Před 4 lety +93

    Sounds much tastier than the Dead Mans Fingers I’ve eaten before ..... y’know , the other kind ...

  • @wiwigt3617
    @wiwigt3617 Před 4 lety +14

    I bet if this was a more common fruit 10 000 years ago it would be three time bigger with way tinier seeds

  • @RAZ3RBLAD3
    @RAZ3RBLAD3 Před 4 lety +46

    I am from India, and yes we use this especially in curry,

    • @viiiderekae
      @viiiderekae Před 4 lety +7

      It looks like tamarind

    • @luiysia
      @luiysia Před 4 lety +6

      that's interesting do you add the seeds with the pulp? is the curry sweet in the end?

    • @stevenmurray3238
      @stevenmurray3238 Před 4 lety +7

      Where in India have you seen this used and how is it prepared? I know it grows along the edge of the Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and China. Very curious how you have seen it used

    • @stoicallyeatingguy2
      @stoicallyeatingguy2 Před 4 lety +9

      You guys use anything for curry

    • @ArshdeepSingh-of4gg
      @ArshdeepSingh-of4gg Před 4 lety +1

      what is the name of this fruit ?? Naam kya he iska bhai ??

  • @sazji
    @sazji Před 4 lety +18

    "It looks like slime, but it's snot."

  • @voicelessglottalfricative6567

    "Sorry guys if you're under 13 you shouldn't be watching this" 😂😂😂

  • @rockitgamer
    @rockitgamer Před 4 lety +40

    I thought they were like bean pods, then we saw the closeup of their texture & shape... not beans! I really enjoy seeing things that I didn't know existed and would have otherwise thought were 'original creations' when making up alien planet fruits and plants.

  • @TheAquadian
    @TheAquadian Před 4 lety +16

    I love you, please keep making more videos. Love your personality and whole concept.

    • @WeirdExplorer
      @WeirdExplorer  Před 4 lety +6

      Lots more on the way!

    • @TheAquadian
      @TheAquadian Před 4 lety +3

      @@WeirdExplorer yay! btw I've been following you for years, I'm so very proud you got smartereveryday as a patron!! Keep it up!

  • @forevertj
    @forevertj Před 4 lety +28

    Reminds me of a Tamarind.

  • @josebatista5188
    @josebatista5188 Před 4 lety +14

    I refuse to harvest fruit from dead people.

  • @yp1318
    @yp1318 Před 4 lety +4

    The lardizabala biternata is also from the same order as decaisnea, akebia, holboellia, sinofranchetia and stauntonia ( in the order of ranunculales)
    And it's from Chile and it's quite rare outside of it,
    It's called coguil

    • @mihaiilie8808
      @mihaiilie8808 Před 4 lety +2

      Zabala its interesting because its a vine that mimics the leaves of the trees it grows on.

    • @WeirdExplorer
      @WeirdExplorer  Před 4 lety +1

      wow.. thats a cool looking one.. I need to get to Chile

    • @wanderlustnursery
      @wanderlustnursery Před 4 lety

      So we actually grow this one here at the nursery from seed imported from Chile. We've been selling plants for the last year, but sadly we haven't had fruit set yet. If we can get fruit off of our vines we will definitely send some to Jared to try! I've heard they're quite good.

    • @wanderlustnursery
      @wanderlustnursery Před 4 lety

      @@WeirdExplorer If you're ever back in Washington State, you're welcome to browse our Chilean Garden.

    • @yp1318
      @yp1318 Před 4 lety

      @@wanderlustnursery
      Do you now how to grow them from seeds? I'm very interested to grow them

  • @stevenperry9762
    @stevenperry9762 Před 4 lety +23

    Wow, super interesting, amazing appearance, so rare to find blue like that in nature, can't wait to try that. Be healthy and safe in the Apple.

    • @72marshflower15
      @72marshflower15 Před 4 lety

      Steven Perry ...I wondered about the same sometime ago. Glad to see that blue fruit do indeed exist.
      I wonder where I can get some seeds or maybe a keiki/baby/bebe for our farm..
      🤔

    • @nopeexe2740
      @nopeexe2740 Před 4 lety +3

      72marshflower15 blueberry:am I a joke to you

    • @shannabolser9428
      @shannabolser9428 Před 4 lety +1

      Blueberries are purple

  • @MrBern91
    @MrBern91 Před 3 lety +2

    hahahah! "dead man's fingers" awfully fitting. xD In the oceans around my area there is a species of sea sponge that is fairly common. We call it "Dödmanshand" (Dead man's hand) as it looks like a pale and bloated persons' hands and fingers if one gets pulled in your fishing nets or if you by chance manage to hook one on your fishing lure. This is a sea sponge and is inedible, so not quite the same thing. But I made that connection due to the morbid nature of the name. Greetings from Sweden! :D

  • @TheStockingPerson
    @TheStockingPerson Před 4 lety +1

    I'm bingewatching this chanel. This is seriously a series of videos I didn't know I needed 😂

  • @jazzmuncher7375
    @jazzmuncher7375 Před 3 lety +1

    Woah that's so cool that smarter every day is one of your main patreon supporters! A good channel with great taste haha

  • @RatDitch
    @RatDitch Před 4 lety +2

    I can't believe I found this channel. This is like perfect, I love trying to find new fruits and have always gone out of my way to do so. I knew I wasn't alone. Awesome channel dude.

  • @anthonyeleven1
    @anthonyeleven1 Před 4 lety +33

    I kept waiting for Jared to refer to the pattern as reticulated.

    • @PedanticAntics
      @PedanticAntics Před 4 lety +1

      anthonyeleven1 next: weird snake explorer

    • @trapdoorguppi
      @trapdoorguppi Před 2 lety

      @@PedanticAntics lol a fellow python lover eh?

  • @kassidybrown4054
    @kassidybrown4054 Před 3 lety +1

    I would so cultivate this in a food forest because it sounds like a fun & delicious fruit! ALSO SPOOKY FRUIT

  • @-jank-willson
    @-jank-willson Před 4 lety +1

    Ooh, I've been waiting for you to review this one for a while!!!

  • @benjibonkers4140
    @benjibonkers4140 Před 4 lety

    I’ve been watching you for over 3 years now and I love your content

  • @pouyan_m
    @pouyan_m Před 4 lety

    Awesome video, been a fan of your channel for a long time, much love ♡

  • @kawaiigoomy3487
    @kawaiigoomy3487 Před rokem +1

    Had a Russian Blue, can’t confirm the blue poop. 😅 He was the sweetest kitty I ever knew though, my childhood best friend, Rest In Peace Shadow Kitty. 💙🌈🐈‍⬛

  • @GolosinasArgentinas
    @GolosinasArgentinas Před 4 lety +3

    What an interesting fruit!

  • @tomwatson9178
    @tomwatson9178 Před 3 lety

    Sounds like this could make an amazing jam - so glad I found this channel!

  • @Fredjikrang
    @Fredjikrang Před 4 lety +4

    I've been thinking about growing this for a while. I'll have to give it a try!

  • @-jank-willson
    @-jank-willson Před 4 lety +2

    3:31 Blue Waffles...

  • @Dubstepforthewin101
    @Dubstepforthewin101 Před 4 lety

    This channel needs a million plus subscribers

  • @TheWeirdestOfBugs
    @TheWeirdestOfBugs Před 4 lety +2

    Sounds fairly interesting...

  • @hak-en-slash4636
    @hak-en-slash4636 Před 3 lety +1

    This reminds me of limber capers, a similar looking bean pod that grows in the Florida Keys. The also look like fingers, and the inside is bright red with white beans that make it look like bones in flesh. I am not sure if they are edible but they sure are weird. My nickname for them was zombie finger bean.

  • @lyonheart84
    @lyonheart84 Před 4 lety +3

    Nice to have an exotic fruit featured that is hardy enough to grow here in the UK, a Decaisnea is on my shortlist to get here to try......I already have 2 Akebia quinata vines, hoping to get some fruit off them. Curiously of course they are a similar colour sausage shaped fruit.

  • @jpa2471
    @jpa2471 Před 4 lety

    What an interesting looking fruit thanks for showing us.

  • @mouse264
    @mouse264 Před 4 lety

    hi Weird Explorer, I just started watching your videos a week or so ago and I'm hooked! I love your enthusiasm and knowledge... and your passion for weird fruits is contagious!! i also think you just seem like a very down-to-earth, cool guy. 10/10 channel my friend :)

    • @Dockhead
      @Dockhead Před 4 lety +1

      looks like you caught the weird fruit explorer bug, hes got absolutely hundreds of fruit tried in the past, some quality can be worse than others but its about the fruit i say.

    • @mouse264
      @mouse264 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Dockhead i did indeed catch the weird fruit explorer bug. "it's about the fruit I say" lmao

  • @Shanask487
    @Shanask487 Před 4 lety +18

    The Chinese name is actually Mao Er Shi. The "Shu" part means genus.

  • @sabosage
    @sabosage Před 4 lety

    I must try this.

  • @chrisguy210
    @chrisguy210 Před 4 lety +25

    Looks like a fruit from Xen.

  • @samrichardson8388
    @samrichardson8388 Před 4 lety +9

    Doing God's work.

  • @Belvarion
    @Belvarion Před 4 lety +1

    Hey just found your channel and loving it :) keep up the awesome content

  • @Handdial
    @Handdial Před 4 lety

    lol the birds and the bees
    thank you sir

  • @nightcore82
    @nightcore82 Před 4 lety +2

    When u said smel i was expecting something gross hahaha 😂😂

  • @TheGrinningViking
    @TheGrinningViking Před 3 lety +1

    Some day a scientist is going to want to study this man's gut flora.

  • @orangeapprentice7634
    @orangeapprentice7634 Před 4 lety +9

    It looks like a blue tamarind.

  • @KateGoldauthoress
    @KateGoldauthoress Před 4 lety +1

    Yay for edible ornamentals!

  • @jakeryker546
    @jakeryker546 Před 4 lety +2

    That's a pretty sofa

  • @fungames1594
    @fungames1594 Před 4 lety

    Cool fruit

  • @jamespigeon1399
    @jamespigeon1399 Před 3 lety +1

    where i am, in the fall every single day the rotten ones fall on the ground, and the wind spreads the rotten fruits everywhere. Its gross

  • @mandab.3180
    @mandab.3180 Před 4 lety +3

    really bizarre looking fruit 👌🏻

  • @thuggie1
    @thuggie1 Před 4 lety +2

    ooo i herd of this never seen it in person

  • @AlM22
    @AlM22 Před 4 lety

    Woah, I want to try it

  • @peaceandlove181
    @peaceandlove181 Před 3 lety

    Wow that’s crazy. Now I wanna try it 😭

  • @bullfrogger1208
    @bullfrogger1208 Před 4 lety

    Gatorade makes a watermelon /cucumber sports drink . It's very refreshing .

  • @xenocide1307
    @xenocide1307 Před 3 lety

    There is a mushroom called Dead Man's Toes, they aren't toxic, but they are woodlike, and typically inedible.

  • @MrGlennJohnsen
    @MrGlennJohnsen Před 4 lety +10

    Really interesting one, how evolution ended up with that color... maybe some specific animal eat them and disperse the seeds?

    • @artoruvidal2793
      @artoruvidal2793 Před 4 lety +2

      It has less of evolution and more of human selective breeding

  • @JAMAL12382
    @JAMAL12382 Před 4 lety

    Wow great content

  • @yanjijay6752
    @yanjijay6752 Před 4 lety +5

    And yes it looks similar to yellow dragon fruit insides

  • @jacobdavidcunningham1440

    3:21 that actually reminds me of the movie Dreamcatcher ha

  • @chesthoIe
    @chesthoIe Před 2 lety +1

    I wonder if my wife, who is very allergic to watermelon, could safely try these.

  • @Shaden0040
    @Shaden0040 Před 3 lety +1

    deadman'sfingers are also what are known as a crab's gills.

  • @Mark-zu6oz
    @Mark-zu6oz Před 4 lety

    I saw these in a botanical garden years ago. I never knew they were edible. I also found a local nursery that carries the plants, so maybe this year I'll plant one.

  • @graphite2786
    @graphite2786 Před 4 lety

    Blue sausage fruit! So glad you got to try some. I wonder if there are different strains, the ones I've seen were much much bluer and fragrant .

  • @aubreegrant8796
    @aubreegrant8796 Před 3 lety

    Look at it!

  • @presidentiallsuite
    @presidentiallsuite Před 4 lety

    Nice as USUALLY 👍🏆😘

  • @radionoakmont7756
    @radionoakmont7756 Před 2 lety

    very nice i heard of that nursery from ciscoe morris on king 5 and evening magazine when i get things going much better i plan on getting some of these as well.

  • @zee30000
    @zee30000 Před 4 lety +1

    I'd love to try that, though I'm not a huge fan of watermelon.

  • @weekendwarrior5303
    @weekendwarrior5303 Před 4 lety +2

    Good thing you put the scientific name. As an amateur mycologist I thought you were going to eat Xylaria polymorpha, which is a fungi also called dead man's fingers.

    • @pattheplanter
      @pattheplanter Před 4 lety

      As an amateur anthropologist I thought he was going to eat some _Homo sapiens,_

    • @Dockhead
      @Dockhead Před 4 lety

      as an amateur nobody i thought it looked pretty cool and had no clue of anything educational wise so i thought he was going to eat bread

  • @elle-izalogan9372
    @elle-izalogan9372 Před 4 lety +4

    That's really interesting.
    But have you ever tried ice cream beans?
    😈

  • @MrSharps02
    @MrSharps02 Před 4 lety

    saw this growing in a park in seattle a while back, not ashamed to say i tried some. slimy, but pretty good!

  • @trol_8889
    @trol_8889 Před 3 lety

    Blue watermelons? That’s the perfect fruit baby!!

  • @pianista1969
    @pianista1969 Před 3 lety

    I sure hope you are collecting all those incredible seeds or donating them to the botanical gardens , they could start a little weird fruit explorer garden in your honor

  • @decentparks3597
    @decentparks3597 Před 4 lety

    At highland park in Rochester NY, the home of the famous lilac festival, there is a fantastic collection of plants and you can find this plant in a section that has jujube as well.

  • @achannel1818
    @achannel1818 Před 4 lety +6

    It looks like those purple things hanging from the ceiling in Mumbo's house from Banjo Kazooie

  • @chasey218
    @chasey218 Před 4 lety

    Such an oddly satisfying channel. I'm not sure what CZcams rabbit hole lead me here, but I'm happy it happened. I'm studying mechanical engineering, and never thought if care about fruit. But damn I love your videos

    • @Dockhead
      @Dockhead Před 4 lety

      a lot of difference in quality on videos from past, but the absolute variety of fruits out there is astonishing.

  • @smileypeach9784
    @smileypeach9784 Před 4 lety

    Hello from Bahrain again :/ being in quarantine in Bahrain is kinda fun :/

  • @davidbeddoe6670
    @davidbeddoe6670 Před 4 lety +1

    its almost like a primeval banana

  • @eduardochavacano
    @eduardochavacano Před 2 lety

    Those look like Blue Tamarind. Very interesting.

  • @karlallspach5309
    @karlallspach5309 Před 3 lety

    I love your videos. You are kind of an apex herbivore. And that couch rocks!

  • @andrewsickler2162
    @andrewsickler2162 Před 4 lety

    Yes the generations of fruits and future of the fruit biz and denominations and also have you thought about flavors and philosophy of the fruit

  • @THEGUYTHEGUYTHEGUYTHEGUYTHEGUY

    I was thinking along the lines of "passionfruit beans"

  • @datboiwidgey4630
    @datboiwidgey4630 Před 4 lety +2

    You should try the black melon

  • @bagel5085
    @bagel5085 Před 4 lety +1

    see if you can get a hold of spanish tamarind (Vangueria madagascariensis) which isnt really a tamarind.i had a bush when i was a kid. never have been able to find them after i left the islands. If you do make sure to let them go completely brown before trying. theyre not good if you dont.

  • @micahpacileo2307
    @micahpacileo2307 Před 4 lety

    HAHAHAHA too cool. this is awesome!

  • @c00p39
    @c00p39 Před 4 lety +1

    Epic

  • @andrewsickler2162
    @andrewsickler2162 Před 4 lety

    About the individual dominations and virtues and morals of the fruit

  • @RonaldAnthonyKharsyiemlieh

    You should really get your hands on the cane fruits. They're really sour, but they got this scally cover on them that give them a unique look that people at my place use them as show piece😄

  • @benny_lemon5123
    @benny_lemon5123 Před 4 lety

    The pattern on its skin reminds me of the dry skin I get on my legs in the winter

  • @whatno5090
    @whatno5090 Před 4 lety +2

    "Mow arr sure shoe"

  • @MalusTheAppleTree
    @MalusTheAppleTree Před 4 lety +1

    I love this plant, wanted to get seeds. I like your fruit videos, i wish to try alot of them also but idk. How to get them in eu.All the best.

  • @XoroksComment
    @XoroksComment Před 4 lety

    I've only ever had an unripe one which was harder to open. It tasted like cucumber with an off-flavor I attribute to the unripeness

  • @organicgrow4440
    @organicgrow4440 Před 4 lety +2

    4:21 I was thinking the same thing, that fertility looking fruit needs to be spooned!

  • @dawnkirk2838
    @dawnkirk2838 Před rokem

    I have this plant , it's about four feet tall, fairly young. I live south of Chicago.

  • @2010RSHACKS
    @2010RSHACKS Před 3 lety

    Looks like passionfruit inside