All right, I am excited about this. I'm kind of working backwards here.
This is Myrica rubra.
Which...
It's funny because I reviewed two relatives to this,
two close relatives to this when I was in India.
Those are very rare. The ones in India were very, very rare. This one is very, very common.
Shape wise it looks a little bit like
if you took the two that I had in India and combined them together.
It's red like the little one that I had, but it's big like the green one that I had.
That's really good.
What's interesting about it...at first,
is that I wasn't able to tell on the other ones because of the ripeness and size of it,
but like these little bits kind of like flake right off. Look at that.
That's kind of weird. They're like individual stalks of pulp that goes straight into that seed in there.
So that's that's kind of bizarre
A bunch. You can a like just like, separate it out.
Which is interesting looking.
A little creepy. It looks like if you look at it really like close,
it's kind of like a little sea anemone.
Or however, you say that.
But what's concerning is that a bug could get in there like super easy.
I bet like these are very prone to little flies and stuff like that.
So I think it would be tricky. You got to be...
So you've got to be careful eating these things.
Not that I am going to because I don't have time
The flavor is like,
Strawberry.
Almost exactly like strawberry.
Which is weird because these are not anywhere related to strawberry.
However, they do have the nickname
Strawberry Tree Fruit.
Which is awesome because I've now had all three fruits on Wikipedia.
That are referenced under Strawberry Tree Fruit.
There's Myrica rubra, this one.
Muntingea calabura, I think is another one
and
Arbutus unedo.
All off the top of my head. I don't know. I don't have internet here.
I'm on a layover guys. I don't have a SIM card. I think I'm right.
So those are the three.
I'm learning way too much about fruit.
So those are the three types of Strawberry Tree Fruit.
All of them are very different
This one is by far the closest tasting to strawberry.
It's not just any strawberry though.
It's kind of like if you buy a strawberry from a market and
they're not super sweet, you know, maybe like little subpar.
It's still good, but a little more sour.
Like if you like a strawberry that's got a little bit more
tartness to it and a little less sweetness to it.
There's maybe like a hint of an herbal taste to it.
Like if you took and you ate the top of the strawberry.
You know there's that little leaf there.
If you just like pop that whole thing in your mouth,
that's what's the fruit of the Myrica rubra tastes like.
For those that are fascinated by the seeds. Here you can take a quick look at it.
What is interesting about this
I'm not sure it's showing up on camera.
They have like very fine little hairs on them.
Almost like peach fuzz on these seeds.
So that's kind of interesting. The seed is relatively small for the size.
The seed on the ones that I had in India,
The little red ones had seeds about the same size as this.
So for those you got very very scant fruit for the seed.
These ones I believe because they're cultivated,
you get a lot of fruit for that seed.
You know, there's a lot of edible portion on this.
And I'm going to compare the three Myricas that I've had.
This one is
I don't know. I say this one and the little red one in India
Or maybe at Thai. The one in India I had I think had more flavor to it.
It was more sour.
So I think I actually like that more.
That little one. But the problem with that it's so tiny you're not getting much out of it.
The green ones are my least favorite.
But it's good if you like those like really really sour ones that you put salt on.
Or put in the chilli powder if you like that sort of thing. That would be better for you.
But this is like a good one like all around.
This is the most sensible one for getting the most flesh to seed ratio out of it
and a really really nice flavor
So yeah, I'm excited to have tried all the strawberry tree fruits
and three Myrica species.
Going from zero before I started this trip,
So that's really exciting for me.
They are a genus of fruit that are really really tasty and really really interesting.
So I'm glad to have gotten a chance to try several of them.
Yeah, this one a super tasty one.
Hey, if you enjoyed this video and you want to get a little bit more information about this fruit,
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