Edible Portion: Fruit, Aril A medium sized evergreen tree. It grows up to 15 m tall but can be 35 m tall. It has a dense round crown. The trunk is smoothand grey with brittle trunk and branches. The trunk can be 1 m across. Leaves are shiny and light green. The leaves arereddish when young. They...
Growables Origin The lychee (Litchi chinensis) is the sole member of the genus Litchi in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. It is a tropical and subtropical fruit tree native to the Guangdong and Fujian provinces of China, and now cultivated in many parts of the world. China is the main producer...
1989-01-01 This manual, by Victor Galan Sauco, successfully summarizes the history and current state of litchi cultivation throughout the world and will be a great help both to growers, for whom it will serve as a guide to cultural practices, and to researchers, for whom it will provide a valuable review of...
The lychee is the most renowned of a group of edible fruits of the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. It is botanically designatedLitchi chinensisSonn.(Nephelium litchiCambess) and widely known as litchi and regionally aslichi, lichee, laichi, leecheeor lychee. Professor G. Weidman Groff, an...