Comments on: “Unusual” Produce – Hanging Ube & Unidentified Sineguelas…

By: roger

roger — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:52:31 +0000

how can i market my air potato coz’ i got lots over my house…i came from batangas city…i want to make this air potato a business…can you help me to market this air potato?

By: imelda

imelda — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:31:24 +0000

i had one grown in my yard but i dont know when its time to harvest the fruit. they are already big.

By: bert

bert — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:10:13 +0000

The second fruit is common in General Santos City, sometimes they called it mangagensan. We have that kind of plant and it does not grow tall. The young fruit taste like green mango and like a sineguelas when ripe. The skin of the ripe fruit is yellow. Its seed is a little bit similar to sineguelas, only it has more protruding fibers.

By: paige

paige — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:16:22 +0000

I know I’m very late to post here, but I just came across this discussion when I was trying to look up the difference between Okinawa sweet potato and ube yam.
We live in Arizona on the Mexican border, and the second fruit looks exactly like what they call here “mamey” or “mamey sapote.” The inside is a salmon-pink color when ripe with soft texture. You can eat it plain or make into ice cream or smoothies. It has a big black seed which is poisonous. The skin feels like it is covered in dried mud to me.
I could be mistaken of course, because I don’t know a lot about Fil. fruits, just though I’d add my two cents.

By: pio banares

pio banares — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:23:33 +0000

the second fruit, is a dangerous fruit! it is also piosonous! that is a tree that bicolano in albay first district calls it LAPIT-LAPIT!
you must not eat that kind of fruit. once you pick it, a white substance if drop in your cloths will never be remove by any king of zonrox or detergent soap. animals ang birds dont ever intent to eat that fruit.
that is not KIWI FRUIT! IT IS A POISONOUS LAPIT-LAPIT TREE FRUIT. sometimes it is twin friut like a testes of men.

By: ed martin

ed martin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:05:51 +0000

i grew up in pampanga knowing that ube has secondary fruit that is hanging on the vine aside from the primary or main tuber underground. the tuber is larger than the hanging fruit. It is the tuber that is used in food preparation while the small hanging fruit is the one that you plant for the next season. in thailand, there is a potato that bears fruit on the vine and it is called “air potato”. about the second picture, i’ve never seen this before.it could not be a kiwi, since kiwi is on a vine and the fruit is protected by fuzz.

By: Glenda Kendall

Glenda Kendall — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:43:02 +0000

we also have ube plan in our property back in Batangas after 6 month old ube plant will bear a fruits hanging in the vine.
My father said is not good to eat beacause it taste bitter.Ube plant dont have seed and my father using ube fruit hanging to start a new Ube plant. And after year old you can have a good ube roots that you can dig underground. About the second picture i never see that in philippines my self but its look like KIWI fruits for me, common here in Japan

By: Sirak

Sirak — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:38:00 +0000

Brian is right. The first picture is Dioscorea bulbifera. Common names are aerial yam or potato yam. Some local names include abobo, karibobo and … (can’t write it here because it’s censored). A few farmers grow them, but it is usually found growing in the wild. The “fruit” is not a fruit; it is a tuber, an aerial one. It also produces ground tubers, but they’re usually small. Marketman is right: it is different from ube which is Dioscorea alata (greater yam, purple yam, red yam, water yam, wing-stemmed yam, etc.) although it is a relative. One clear difference: it has round stem while ube has angular or winged stem. Some folks use aerial yam as meat extender, but I’ve also read that some of its varieties can be toxic. I know some purple varieties of this plant tastes bitter, but some are ok. But perhaps I won’t be taking more risks until I know more.

By: Chit

Chit — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:56:27 +0000

please send your replies on hanging ube to delatorrechito@yahoo.com
thanks a million to all

By: Chit

Chit — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:54:37 +0000

what’s the Philippine government’s official proclamation on hanging ube? very few in Basey, Samar have planted hanging (vine) ube – the one with the “fruit” hanging (to be cookec and eaten like the root ube) but none has shown how it is cooked, and, yes, eaten. we have this vine plant in our yards. quizzical people want to plant but would first want to see how to cook and eat it without any danger. most importantly, they want to hear from the National Nutrition Council, Food Nutrition and Research Institute, Dept. of Science and Technology, Dept. of Agriculture Central Office, and the botanists. any answers or guidance, please? thank you in advance for your emailed replies.