Thread: African Booze Tree

Originally Posted by Disco44

READ BEFORE WATCHING THE VIDEO:

This is a video clip from a French documentary about Africa . You may not understand a single word of it, but the video's a hoot.

There is a tree that grows in Africa . Once a year it produces a very juicy fruit that quickly ferments and has very high alcohol content. Because of water scarcity, as soon as the fruits are ripe, all sorts of animals eat them to quench their thirst.

I needed a good laugh
If i could get some seeds that would grow just nicely in my vegie patch..

One of my wife's lady friends grew up in Kenya and told us about these trees and their fruit. She reckoned elephants were the worst probably because they held more fruit and it fermented in their big guts for days. She says a p++++d elephant has trouble standing up and they like to find a farm shed to lean on for a bit of a sleep. You find out about this when one of your sheds develops a severe list to starboard. She says drunk elephants are like drunk men. They sing and fight and fall over. Elephants are cunning and will hide in the national parks but when they come out for a p++s-up every elephant has to make their own hole in your fence. No follow the leader. She reckoned singing drunk elephants are a PIA.

I gather that the National Parks people hate drunk hippos. The rangers have to save them from drowning when they are too bloody p++sed to swim and they weigh a couple of tons each. I am told the drunk hippos go to sleep, sink, and drown.

Don't know if you can still get it, but you used to be able to buy Amarula liquer in Australia, produced from this fruit.

A friend gave me a bottle once - not a bad drop and pretty potent as well.

Now I know what I was drinking the other week! A friend lived in Africa for a while and gave us some to try. It looked very thick and milky, but tasted really good.

Originally Posted by BMKal

Don't know if you can still get it, but you used to be able to buy Amarula liquer in Australia, produced from this fruit.

A friend gave me a bottle once - not a bad drop and pretty potent as well.

The name sounds right. I am sure she called the fruit the Marula Plum.

here it is - it even has a drunken elephant on the bottle

Is this the Inga edulus tree, known here as the drunken parrot tree?

I have some seeds somewhere for these trees.
Never got around to germinating them,so possibly no good as we have had them for a long time.
Got them from either Eden Seeds in Tas or Diggers Seed Savers in Vic.
Andrew