The lychee is one of the most delicious fruits you will ever taste our boss Greg Daley says they are his favourite. Lychees are a fruit tree which can have what we like to call a Bumper Crop. I visited my Nanna Maisy last week in Tweed Heads who has a lychee tree which she got from Daleys Nursery 20 years ago and it looked fantastic.
It got it's first harvest in the first 3 years when it was small however when it was 10 years old it got a disease which caused a lot of the leaves to fall off. Maisy was going to cut it down however it came good and ever since it has been getting huge crops like this one. She says she never waters it.
2 years ago a flying fox got caught in one of the nets and luckily my brother visited that day. He freed the bat and took off all the nets. Although it was uncovered not one bat visited the lychee that season.
Labels: green thumb sunday, lychee Tree
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No Rain said ...
I think I've tasted these, but not sure. Are they used in Chinese food? That bat is huge!
Happy GTS,
Aiyana
Time: Monday, December 24, 2007
Garden Wise Guy said ...
Love the lychee article, but what really caught my eye was "Nanna Edmed in Twead Head." It's great start for a poem in a children's book. You might want to work on that! Hope the holidays are enjoyable and your new year is bountiful and prosperous.
Time: Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Iowa Gardening Woman said ...
How interesting! I have never even heard of a Lychee tree.
Time: Monday, December 31, 2007
blueblue said ...
I love lychees...there's also another plant that is very similar that I discovered up north: the rambutan..and I am totally unable to tell the difference between them.
My Nan and Pop lived in Bowen and Xmas as a kid is filled with memories of Bowen mangoes and lychees arriving by freight..*yum*.
Time: Saturday, January 05, 2008
said ...
blueblue: The Lychee and Rambutan do look quite similar, infact, they share the same plant family too. Sapindaceae.
The Rambutan has many soft spinterns or bristle like appendages on the skin of fruit. Whereas the Lychee lacks these and has segmented protuberances instead. (similar in appearance to that of Raspberry or Blackberry fruit).
Both of them are excellent eating in my opinion. And very common throughout SE Asia.
Cheers,
Tristan.
Time: Sunday, January 06, 2008
said ...
blueblue: It just occurred to me that you may have been referring to taste rather than appearance of Rambutan/Lychee.
I agree with that, they do taste like one another, similar in texture too. :)
Tristan.
Time: Sunday, January 06, 2008