Season: April to June
Originally perceived as Chinese fruit, lychee is a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed. Today, this lucrative delicacy is becoming rather famous. Nowadays, several varieties of Thai lychee are successfully growing in the northern Thailand and are available both fresh and canned.
Lychee
Lychee is a fruit with adark red shell, white flesh, has a sweet, yet sour, taste and a pleasant scent. It is easily found during April to June. The most famous provinces that grow Lychee are Chiangmai, Chiangrai, Payao, Samutsongkram, etc.
Lychee is a fruit of calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamins that have a quality in helping digestion, bad stomach, nurturing intemal organs (the spleen and the nervous system.) Moreover, Lychee helps to decrease dehydration. If wa drink boiled dried Lychee flesh, it would help to decrease the pain from swollen intestines and testicles as well as anemai.
Lychee (Lin-chee)Highly regarded by Thais, lychees are grown in abundance in the North, but for only a brief period. Small and round, with a hard seed inside, they are easily peeled by hand and are really juicy. Season: April to June
Litchi Nut or Lychee Nut or Leechee Nut
Native to South China, Lychee is an attractive glossy leafed evergreen tree growing 25 to 40 feet. The tree grows compactly with a nice round top and spreading branches. It is related to the Golden Rain tree and the Akee fruit tree
Lychee develops small green-white flowers which grow in panicles close to 12 inches long in June or July in South Florida. These panicles then produce very tasty edible 'nuts' borne in large, red clusters. The picture above was taken in late July 2000. Depending the variety, the nuts vary in size and at least 3 named types are grown in Florida
Mature fruits are bright red, rough, brittle and warty on the outside, with bright white delicious fruit inside, very nice to eat fresh out of hand. The appearance is like seeing clusters of strawberries hanging at the end of branch tips
Lychee is highly prized by Oriental peoples for fresh eating and cooking
You can open the red outer shell with your fingers. Inside you see a firm whitish pulp that is delicious and mildly acidic. The dried fruit is eaten like a raisin and is even sweeter than the fresh fruit
This is a fine tree to consider in the landscape. Use it as a freestanding specimen or a framing tree or as a nice shade tree
Plant in full sun. It likes sandy (well drained) soil amended with plenty of good organic soil, Water regularly to establish, mulch and be sure to feed properly, then expect carefree growth with ongoing reasonable care
One "trick" for best fruit is to cut off ALL added (sprinkler/hose) water from August until flowering, which is approximately January in South Florida. The stress turns out to produce more flowering, more and better fruit
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