Lychees , What are they?!
Answers: I have never heard of them before the last couple of days, and I have no clue what they are. Also, how is the word pronounced? Thanks all!
A lychee is a rare sub tropical fruit originating in South China where the lychee is very important in their culture and is famed as "the King of Fruits".
The lychee fruit is about 1? to 2 inches in size, oval to rounded heart shaped and the bumpy skin is red in color. Once you peel the skin off, the crisp juicy flesh of a lychee fruit is white or pinkish, translucent and glossy like the consistency of a grape, but the taste is sweeter. Lychees have a sub acid sweet taste and have a wonderful freshness to them that is hard to describe. Lychee fruit is high in the antioxidant Vitamin C and the essential mineral Potassium.
Lychee trees are beautiful hardwoods that can grow 20 to 40 feet tall in a primarily dome shaped habit of growth with dense, evergreen leaves.
ahh there amazing! i used to live on maui and there everywhere...the best way to describe them is there giant skinless grapes. they are the craziest looking fruits though. there oval shape usually a dark red or purple..and the ones ive seen have hairs on it about an inch long that are bright orange....not sure what type those are though. you say it leechee
Everything you ever wanted to know (or not!) about the Lychee:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lychee
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A strange type of fruit. Delicious and you can find them in tons of asian style candies. Very similar to grapes but weirder looking.
Yes! They are one of the fruit ever that has been discovered!I used to eat them a whole bunch when I was still living in Vietnam and hasn't move to US yet.You probably don't know what it is because mostly Asia has them.It's rare for other countries to have them in markets and etc.
This is what they usually look like:
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It is a tropical fruit tree native to southern China. It is also commonly found in India, northern Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines.
It is a medium-sized evergreen tree, reaching 15–20 m tall, with alternate pinnate leaves, each leaf 15–25 cm long, with 2-8 lateral leaflets 5–10 cm long; the terminal leaflet is absent. The newly emerging young leaves are a bright coppery red at first, before turning green as they expand to full size. The flowers are small, greenish-white or yellowish-white, produced in panicles up to 30 cm long.
The fruit is a drupe, 3–4 cm long and 3 cm in diameter. The outside is covered by a pink-red, roughly-textured rind that is inedible but easily removed. The inside consists of a layer of sweet, translucent white flesh, rich in vitamin C, with a texture somewhat similar to that of a grape. The edible flesh consists of a highly developed aril enveloping the seed. The center contains a single glossy brown nut-like seed, 2 cm long and 1–1.5 cm in diameter. The seed, similar to a buckeye seed, is slightly poisonous and should not be eaten. The fruit matures from July to October, about 100 days after flowering.
In Australia we say ``lie-chee''- they have a thick bumpy skin you have to peel off and a big seed inside- very tropical, they're great. The ones that are similar look hairy on the outside (they're like thick bendy, curly plant hairs- can't think of a better way to describe it) they're called Rambutans. They do have a taste and texture that can be compared to grapes but they're really in a class of their own, you would definitely notice the difference! They're addictive..