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...
2011-01-01 The first of two volumes, this book covers major tropical fruits such as avocado, litchi, mango, papaya and pineapple. Early chapters describe the tropics and its soils and deal with key issues such as tree management and postharvest handling, updated and expanded to include best handling...
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...