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...
Key Resource20/01/2011 While products such as bananas, pineapples, kiwifruit and citrus have long been available to consumers in temperate zones, new fruits such as lychee, longan, carambola, and mangosteen are now also entering the market. Confirmation of the health benefits of tropical and subtropical fruit may also...
Conveners S. Mitra, H. Jaenicke, M. Akbulut, H. İkten, Y. Cohen Editors M. Akbulut, S. Mitra, D.H Reinhardt, H. İkten, Y. Cohen Publication date 15 December 2020 ISBN 978-94-62612-96-9 ISSN 0567-7572(print) 2406-6168(electronic) Number of articles 68 Volumes 1 Place Istanbul, Turkey
Convener T. Ha Le Editors T. Van Hau, S.K. Mitra, T. Drang Khanh Publication date 3 November 2020 ISBN 978-94-62612-91-4 ISSN 0567-7572(print) 2406-6168(electronic) Number of articles 37 Volumes 1 Place Hanoi, Vietnam
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...
17/07/2017 For 20 years, an area in eastern India was the site of a mysterious, sudden-onset, neurological illness that affected apparently healthy young children, resulting in seizures, comas and (in 40 percent of cases) death. This pattern occurred starting in mid-May, and ended in July with the arrival...