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Old 08-03-2010, 03:55 PM
 
Location: Visitation between Wal-Mart & Home Depot
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Originally Posted by leilaniguy View Post
Aloha from Hawaii. Lychee is indeed a delicious fruit. There are acres of them here. The fruit pictured looks similar to lychee, but is not. It's the fruit of Arbutus, the Strawberry tree. It's related to Manzanita and Madrone.
I stand humbly corrected...
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Old 08-22-2010, 10:48 PM
 
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Its really looking beautiful....looks like leechi...
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Old 08-23-2010, 07:10 AM
 
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a stone is good description of lychee.

look at the 4th picture in post #1, clearly not a single stone.



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I ate a ton of lychees at the lychee festival in Shenzen in 1994. Interesting fruit. The skin is easily separated from the flesh (which is not unlike white grape in flavor and consistency, only with a stone) and the whole fruit is about the size of a smallish plum.

I concur - that's a lychee. It is probably growing illegally, btw...
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Old 08-24-2010, 02:27 PM
 
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a stone is good description of lychee.

look at the 4th picture in post #1, clearly not a single stone.
Hey now, I've already been humbly corrected... No need to pile on...
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Old 08-24-2010, 07:55 PM
 
Location: Native Floridian, USA
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it looks like lychee on the out side, but it is not. Lychees flesh are firm milky white colour, large black/brown seed. they are delicious.
I was going to say this. We have lychees here in Florida although they are very cold sensitive. Very good fruit.
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