Hello friends in Hive garden Community.. greeting from Indonesian 🥰
in my area, Binjai, it is starting to enter the summer season, the leaves are starting to fall and some are starting to sprout. Activities in my garden are also starting to be active, I started to clean the garden from wild plants and weeds that grow carelessly in my garden. But this afternoon when I went to the garden I just realized there were wild plants growing well in my garden. We call it Gambutan. I have never planted this wild plant, but it is growing well in my garden. Honestly I am very happy, there is a Gambutan plant in my garden, it is like hitting the jackpot
Gambutan plants are wild plants that are similar to pumpkins, their stems have many tendrils and their stems creep. On its stem, tendrils grow which make this plant look like it has hands to hold on tightly to the place it chooses.
The shape of Gambutan leaves is similar to pumpkin leaves, only smaller in size. Just like pumpkin leaves, the surface of Gambutan leaves also has protective wax and fine hairs. If we touch the surface of the leaf, it will feel rough because of the fine hairs on the surface of the leaf.
Although Gambutan is a wild plant, Gambutan fruit is one of the fruits of nature's gift, because Gambutan plants only grow in nature that is still preserved, they really like fertile soil. If there are Gambutan plants growing in our garden, it is because nature gives us a gift in the form of Gambutan fruit.
Gambutan fruit is one of the unique wild fruits, because this fruit grows in the protection of a nest, similar to a bird's nest. This nest is a protector of the Gambutan fruit, after the Gambutan fruit is old and yellow, the nest will be released. When we touch the fruit nest, our hands feel like they are touching a ball of fine hairs.
Young Gambutan fruit is green, while old Gambutan fruit is yellow. Gambutan fruit that is still green has a sour and slightly bitter taste, not delicious. Therefore the best time to enjoy this Gambutan fruit is after it turns yellow. Yellow Gambutan fruit has a fresh sweet taste like passion fruit. Although the size of the fruit is small, the taste of the fruit makes you miss it, because it is sweet and fresh, especially when eaten during the summer.
I really like eating Gambutan fruit, because this fruit is not easy to get, no one sells this wild fruit, because it grows in random places. If this plant is in our garden, then nature is kindly giving us the gift of this sweet and fresh fruit.I love this wild fruit 🥰🥰🥰
Thank you, nature, for giving me this sweet Gambutan fruit. I promise I will continue to protect nature as much as I can.
Thank you, garden-loving friends, for taking the time to read my post.
Best Regard
@umirais
You have been blessed 🌱
the way the fruit grows, enveloped in its nest, reminded me of the Physalis, that we cultivate here in Europe ❤️
Taking care of nature, nature will take care of you back.
in my country it is called ciplukan and is a wild plant @bigorna1
Ah cool. so you have it there too 🌱 ❤️
What a beautiful plant, what a peculiar way in which the fruit comes out, it definitely looks like the nest of a bird and its egg hehe very nice 😍
yes and the fruit is delicious @elbuhito
Wow that is so neat that you have a wild gabutan plant in your garden. It is so interesting looking with the fruit inside the protective layer.
yes and it tastes sweet and tempting @sjarvie5
Good to know that you also have this kind of wild plant @umirais. This was my childhood favorite snacks too. Aside from wild guavas we use to find in the forest we use to picked this fruits. We locally call this plant “utot-utot”. Utot which means for us “fart” I don’t know how it started but I learned why we call it utot it’s because it’s sounds like a fart when pop. I love eating this when they are still green but already ripe it tastes sweet and sour. Unlike if it’s already yellow they are too sweet which I don’t really like the taste anymore. Until today I still like to eat them whenever I found one. 😊
yes you are right when we are going to eat it it sounds like a fart, maybe that is why this wild fruit is called Utot - utot @luckylaica