I already went this Sunday and found it! 😄 more news and pics tomorrow as I have been exhausted, I walked 4 and 1/2 hours all together in the hills, when I came back I feel my back as if somebody hit me with a stick, and my lower legs are still in pain when walking, that just reminded me I need a do more regular exercise! 😄
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Hi Oscar and Chandramohan, hahaha, yes it's been a few days, I was expecting for this one prehistoric monster I found to ripe for opening,
Well sometimes description of people even if they have been all the time in the jungle are as precise as us fruit collectors would like, the supposed small shrub with fruit hanging by the side with the size of a Pineaple it turns out to be a beautiful surrealistic small palm (I'm a neofit when talking about palms)
He shows me one very small before reaching the small slope were they are, it was like 25 cm. High with long glossy leaves of very hard texture feeling like kind of plastic, the trunk is very nice with small rombos like in the pineapples skin, then another 30 minutes later high up when I feel I couldn't walk any more, he told me, there is! 😄 I saw a one meter high palm with a nice mark trunk, leaves on top by the sides, and in exactly the middle high a huge thing similar to a Pineaple but covered by white wool, it was very straight to the sky,
So I totally exited ask him to use the machete to cut it, then why went to look for more and in total we only found 3 palms of decent size to have fruit on top, the largest one was starting to lean by one side, maybe that's why this guy told me that when he saw it on the other mountain (the farest one) the fruit was hanging like bananas, maybe the ripe ones start to lean by the side,
This is not a fruit you can check easily open with your hands, a knife is needed, when I touched it the wool covering it feel so nice, warm and soft, I
Forgot to mentioned that the first one we saw it has rests of a fruit maybe devoured by an animal or overripe, There was a few little orange pieces so we tried for me it was sweet and then bitter, I asked him if he felt the bitter flavor he says no, I thought that was because 5 minutes before he showed me a little plant he said it was Damiana, I chewed some leaves and they were all extremely bitter I have to spit them out of my mouth, so I figured out this is was the reason for the bitter flavor, later when I opened in my house inside it has orange pieces inside like the jack fruit, unfortunately I think I cut the fruits before ripening and they didn't kept ripening of the palm like other fruits do, the pulp was kind of dry and astringent, so there's lot of questions still pending, I'm going to send pics to a friend in the university to see if he can ID,
and see if is edible, anyway I'm happy because we found something I haven't seen before and turned out to be a nice eye catching palm of small size, I'm planning one in my house, hopefully in the future I can sell little palms to nurseries this would be a hot sale, in the meantime the plant is ID I'm going to refer to it as Pineaple Jackfruit Palm.....
Sorry for the short videos but my recoding application wasn't working and was cutting the videos after a few seconds I realized that later at home, sorry I can't go back at least in 6 months!!! 😂
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