Spotting

Thanks Jolly for your help with this. Strangely, jrtiburciojr, who left the last comment, seemed to join Noah just to comment on this spotting. That's all the activity show on their profile. Thanks for the link, rattan fruit sounds extremely sour. I'll have to try it my next visit to SE Asia to see what the fuss is about.

Rattan fruit is sour but does not look like that. Here is a link to see the fruit: http://casaveneracion.com/rattan-fruit/ Anyway, I will try to help you ID this spotting.

Any idea on what kind of fruit it is then? I'm aware of what information is needed for a proper ID of a plant. Back when I went to the Phillipines, I took a lot of photos but didn't always search where or what it came from because I wasn't thinking about trying to get it identified. I had no clue of where to start with getting species identified. I didn't know any resources online. It's only since I've joined Project Noah that I have had some of my unknown species identified. Also since joining I've been making way more detailed observations and taking photos with multiple angles of whatever organism I'm photographing. I don't press specimens when I travel because I am backpacking and don't have the room and I don't want to carry all the necessary equipment to do that. Thank you, I have been enjoying my trips into nature around the world for the last 15 years.

That definitely is not a rattan fruit. Rattan fruits all look the same and are attached to the stem in the same manner. The peduncle (the stem by which the fruit is held) is a giveaway. Then there is the spot where some of the bead-like features are missing. When the scale-like peel (if you may call it that) of the ripe rattan fruit is removed in that manner you should already be seeing the brown pulp underneath. Looks more like a compound fruit to me. If you really want to help identify the species of a flower, fruit or leaf, look around, up and down and try to locate where it came from. Try to describe the plant, whether it is a tree, palm, shrub, bush, vine or one that is clinging to another plant, and where it is growing. Take pictures. Learn how to press your specimens so you can show it to somebody who may be able to help. Above all, enjoy your trips into nature. Even your backyard may be a source of surprises.

amazing and fascinating spotting! Makes me almost wonder if plants can mimic! Maybe we still have to learn a lot about plants!

we already lost so much of our forest.(thanks to loggers... :-) so it might be very difficult for you Cherrey to see them in their habitat or as it is not harvested. But then there is not much different from the finished product you seeing everywhere there in the Philippines. Only that it is really cool to see them hanging from the tree! Yes Cherrey I can say I had experienced about nature my dad used to be a loggers :-). Although i was educated in Manila most of my life was spend in the forest. I stayed in the mountain of Kaligga Apayao for 2 years working with the local tribes and then the rest was in the area of sherra madre.

Thanks for the story Gina. Cherrey, you might have seen rattan and not know it. They are a vine with very long, thin sharp spikes - very deadly to brush up against.

i haven't seen a rattan or if i've seen one i wouldn't be able to recognize it... wow that can be eaten.. Gina you had some great experiences with nature..

Unfortunately I really don't know much about it when it comes to science. Yes alice was right it was sour :-). I've seen many wild fruits from the forest that I have not seen in noah yet. But honestly I don't even know their names. My dad even brouhgt home a two baby toucan birds. We rare them until they really grown up every one in the village loves them but they will enter evry ones kitchen and ate anything they can find! they stay with us until they grow old they think every kitchen in the village was their kitchen!

I didn't like the rattan I tasted when I was young. It's so sour!

Thanks for the confirmation Gina. So you've actually eaten this? Any idea on genus or species?

This is definitely a rattan fruit, my father used to brought it back home from sierra madre mountain. still attached from its stem(the rattan) its a single fruit inside, its like when you open a rumbuttan fruit, it has a very sour and sweet taste full of antioxidant i believed. When its still on the stem they looked like a bunch of palm fruit attached to their stems, but smaller.

Yeah, I think you've got it all covered there. I'm thinking it looks like it could be the fruit of a rattan.

I have three thoughts on this spotting;
1. It might be one of those species of Philippine rattan (genera: Calamus or Daemonorops or Korthalsia or Plectocomia).
2. It might be a cob of a grass (as in a corn cob).
3. It might be an immature fruit.
Well that's about everything, right? :)

Unfortunately I did not open it. I don't know anything about it.

Hi Dandoucette, Did you open the "fruit"? Is it a singular fruit or is it in a cluster?

That's the Noah ranger patch. This is a description taken from the blog, accessible at the bottom of the page, to help explain. Noah Rangers help the community by identifying species, answering questions, providing reference links, and maintaining the accuracy of our spottings. They are chosen based on their contributions to the site and their commitment to nature.

@dan: so true.. haven't seen that.. what's that badge at the right of your comment box?

that´s quite unique! wow

Wow! I'm surprised the native Filipinos have never seen something like this. Must be rare or a bit unique.

wow what a find!.. im from the Philippines too but haven't seen anything like that..

Wow, looks like beaded. Very unusual.

i am from the philippines but i haven't come across this plant. plant right? yup interesting indeed.

Amazing!

interesting!