Comments on: Susu ng Kalabaw or Susong Kalabaw, Part II

By: lulu

lulu — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:00:24 +0000

haha!.. what funny little fruits… when my mother said “Nakatikim ka na ba ng suso ng kalabaw?”, I was like mum that’s a little perverted :)) But looking at the beautiful pictures.. I am intrigued.. so many fruits I’ve never even heard of before..:)

By: kim

kim — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:54:11 +0000

hi patrick, It is still abundant at the hills/mountains of Calatagan. Just last July wen I went to my farm, many fruits were hanging from the vines by the wayside. If you are still interested to have seeds for propagation I will be happy to help you. Just PM me at kim_nieva@yahoo.com. And for those who thingk it is a shrub, I think you are mistaken. It really is a vine though, the stem or stalks are hard and appear like small branches of a tree. It is easy to mistake it for a shrub as often grows or creeps among shrubs.

I think MM is more correct to say that it resembles more of a passion fruit than atis. I think our scietists got it all wrong by including it in the annonaceae family. all of the fruits gruped in that family are from trees or shrubs while the passion fruit and the susong kalabaw are both vines. The seeds too are similar.

For those who think its yucky, it really is not. Its just like eating ripe tomatoes with more seeds and less flesh.

By: patrick filoma

patrick filoma — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:32:09 +0000

I remember when i was a kid. we used to go to the hill of San Diego, Lian, Batangas.

It is vine tree fruit and really nutritious.

I never see them in other place, even in Lian, Batangas.

I dont know if it is still available in the hill of San Diego, Lian, Batangas because now i think most of these hills are becoming beach houses.

i really want to have the seed of that. i there a way i can have it from San Juan, La Union. I am now living in South America and become a monk. So i dont have contact with anyone in San Diego.

patrick

By: Bill Sabalburo

Bill Sabalburo — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:37:41 +0000

Yes, the susong-kalabaw (called Allagat in Ilocano) is a fruit which is common in the forest of La Union. However, over the years, it started to become extinct. The scientific name is Uvaria Rufa. See the website for other local names https://www.stuartxchange.org/Hilagak.html. It is NOT a medicinal plant! Rather, the root is an ecbolic or will cause abortion.

You can see another picture of a ripe susong-kalabaw at: https://gotoknow.org/file/khajitfoythong/Tay3.jpg

For a green fuit, you can go to: https://www.isan.clubs.chula.ac.th/para_norkhai/up_files/phiphan.jpg

My sister-in-law has over 100 seedlings that she has propagated from the root cuttings. I will plant them in our forest in San Juan, La Union next time I go home on vacation.

As my planned hobby when I retire in two years, I will be propagating a lot of soon-to-be extinct indigenous trees and plants. I am also looking for seeds of sapang tree to plant. Anyone who has seeds pls let me have some.

Thx.

By: Bong

Bong — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:53:15 +0000

Suso nang Kalabaw is a wild shrub. The fruits are normally in a cluster of 5 to 8 fruits. We used to gather lots of this this fruit when I was a kid in Isabela. It is best harvested during rainy season as the fruits are more plump and sweeter. Among Ibanags this fruit is called “dupo na Ayong”, loosely translated as banana of monkeys. It is called such because monkeys love to gourge on this fruit.

By: edna

edna — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:28:01 +0000

Ungali!! I grew up eating this fruit! Where did you find them MM? It’s beem decades since I’ve eaten one. I grew up in Oriental Negros and this fuit was common as duhat and sineguelas back then. My cousins and I would devour bunches of this when we were kids. It’s wild, from a vine and grew just anywhere…even on roadsides among the bamboos. But they’re all gone now :-(

By: Marketman

Marketman — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:47:38 +0000

Sagada, how INTERESTING. I have been to Sagada twice before, in my teens really, before I developed an interest in food… hmmmm, now I have to go back for the fruit! This AGSUP is making me weigh the 13 hour or so trip to Sagada by car… I wish I could get someone there to send some AGSUP, whatever it is, to me instead! Obviously, the name of this fruit has everyone smiling… and yes, I did expect this to taste better than it did…

By: Apicio

Apicio — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:42:31 +0000

Your misperos might me our (Tagalog) chico because they are called nisperos in most of Central and South America, nieceberry in Jamaica, Dolsi sounds like orange cherry tomatoes but please further describe Agsup to us, colour, size, shape, flavour, etc.

By: sagada

sagada — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:37:31 +0000

i never had any of these fruits before. maybe because they grew in tropical regions only.
i grew up in sagada, which is very temperate and we also have different ethnic/imported fruits. do check them out:
MISPEROS – brought by the spaniards or chinese traders.
PERSIMMON – are being sold straight to 3-5 star hotels in
manila from sagada.
PINIT – different variations of wild mountain berries.
DOLSI – wild variety of tomato, small and yellowish when
ripe, sweet.
AGSUP – the darling of them all. only available in the
remaining rainforest of sagada and during the months
of sept-oct.

By: Maria Clara

Maria Clara — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:47:03 +0000

Never seen or heard of this before just ran into them through your site.