Elephant Bull, Jabulani Sniffs Out Marula Fruit In Adine’s Pocket 🍈🐘

Elephant bull, Jabulani uses his astute scent-detector to sniff out the location of a special little fruit hiding in Adine's pocket, on a walk out with the herd in the reserve. Jabulani's curious trunk goes straight for the little yellow-green marula Adine had picked up on the journey and made sure his long-time friend handed it to him immediately.

Marulas are an absolute favourite of the African elephants and grow from the African marula tree (Sclerocarya birrea) - a tree of great beauty and value.

The fruit, bark and leaves are eaten by animal and man alike both for nutrition and for their medicinal properties. The fruit is consumed in vast amounts between December and March by many animals, such as the elephant, and the seeds are eaten and ‘saved for later’ by rodents, both of whom repay the annual feast by spreading the seeds far and wide.

Have you ever watched an African elephant under the canopy of the tree, reaching up to the branches or down with that wondrous trunk to pick the fallen fruit on the ground?

Grown on the marula tree, marula fruit are part of the same family as the mango, found widely across Africa.

The story of the marula tree has been an integral part of Africa for thousands of years. It provides hundreds of kilograms of fruit every season and through its bounty, it provides a means of existence for many people living nearby. It is now used internationally, not only as a marula fruit cream liqueur. The oil is extracted from the seed kernels and used in cooking and cosmetics. This walnut-sized kernel is cold-pressed to extract the oil and, learning from the thousands of years of use by African women, it is now used both as a salad dressing and as a hydrating and nourishing skin treatment.

The bark of the marula tree – also known as the elephant tree – contains helpful antihistamines… It has been a traditional African healing practice to steep the bark in hot water and inhale the steam, to take advantage of these allergy-relieving properties, for thousands of years before the western world “discovered” antihistamines.

Archaeological evidence from the Pomongwe Cave in Zimbabwe suggests that the marula tree was a source of nutrition as long ago as 10,000 years BC and so it is not surprising that, somewhere down the line of time, one of its most popular uses began when the fruit juice and pulp were mixed with water and fermented to make marula beer, a traditional alcoholic beverage.

For the making of Amarula, the creamy and cherished South African liqueur known as Amarula, there is an annual three-month harvest, whereby hundreds of local village women load the ripe fruit that has fallen to the ground into 50kg bags for delivery to the Amarula processing plant, where they receive payment for their collection.

After delivery, the fruit is pitted and pulped before being transported in temperature-controlled trucks to Stellenbosch in the Western Cape Province where it is fermented, distilled and aged in oak barrels before being blended into the final, delicious, product…

Interestingly, and not to steal the limelight from the handsome Jabulani, dominant bull, Sebakwe is in fact the face of Amarula and you can find his magnificent image on the bottle label.

We’ve started harvesting the sweet fruit to make our own lodge jam, but you’ll also be able to taste their distinct flavour in your morning Amarula liqueur and coffee.

Come & join us for a taste of marula fruits or Amarula at a special Jabublani sundowner with the herd!

Read more: https://jabulanisafari.com/the-wonders-of-amarula-the-marula-tree-for-elephant-human-kind/

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