Rambutan and lychee share a common lineage; the two fruits belong to the flowering species, soapberry (botanical name, Sapindaceae), which also includes longan, pulasan, and ackee. "They are both ...

When the summer season comes, the fruit market gets filled with fruits that are available during the season and provide the ...

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Question: My lychee tree has finished fruiting with only a few fruits this year. It has grown a bit large for the site in my yard. How do I get more fruit and when can I prune the tree? Answer: Like ...

Five things to do in the garden: Fruit. Longan (Dimocarpus longan) is related to lychee. While the peel of lychee is pinkish-red and bumpy, that of the longan is brown and smooth. In both cases, ...

Jonathan Crane, a tropical-fruit crop specialist at UF’s Tropical Research & Education Center in Homestead, picks lychee off one of the 216 trees on the research campus site. He said the fruits ...

There is a new pest in the county posing a serious threat to lychee trees, so everyone growing them will want to learn what to do to protect their tree. This new insect is the lychee erinose mite, ...

For chef Mark Noguchi, born and raised in Oahu, Hawaii, lychee signals the start of summer. "Once you start to see the lychee come out, you know summer is here," he said of the fruit, which he ...

Like so many in the latest crop of farmers, Sharon and Peter Jaschinski didn’t start out as life as “traditional” farmers. Rather, they were the desk-bound workers. He logged 30 years as a programmer ...

Question: I am adding a few fruit trees to my landscape. Will a lychee tree grow locally? Answer: Only in a warm area where temperatures stay above freezing can you grow lychee trees. It is a very ...

Alex Jackson, vice president of sales and procurement for Los Alamitos, CA-based Frieda's Branded Produce Gabriel 'Gabe' Bernal, executive vice president of Seasons Farm Fresh, a Miami-based wholesale ...