What does longan look like?

Longan is a plant of Sapindaceae, and it is one of the four most valuable fruits in southern China, also known as Longan. Its shape is round, slightly smaller than litchi, with crisp skin, bluish brown color, sweet flesh and edible. Peel off the peel, the pulp is white, and the red and black stone head inside is like eyes. Its seeds are spherical, brown-black, shiny and surrounded by fleshy aril.

Plant characteristics of longan

Longan, also known as Longan, Litchi Seed, Asian Litchi and Swallow Egg, is a plant of Sapindaceae and one of the four most valuable fruits in South China. Longan is distributed in Fujian, Taiwan Province, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places in China. Longan is divided into Shijieshi Longan No.2, Caopu Longan No.3, Chuliang Longyan No.4, Dongbian Yanyong No.5, Gushan No.2 and other varieties.

Longan appearance

Longan is round, slightly smaller than litchi. Its skin is crisp, blue-brown, and its meat is sweet and edible. When its peel is peeled off, it will leak white pulp, and the red and black stone inside it looks like an eye, so it is called "longan".

Leaves: The leaflets of longan are thin leathery, oblong-lanceolate or rectangular, with acute or slightly blunt apex, 6-15cm long and 2.5-5.0cm wide.

Seeds: The seeds of longan are spherical, brown and black in color, shiny, surrounded by fleshy arils and hard.

Root system: Longan is a deep-rooted tree species, which can take root and grow in arid and barren soil. Strong germination ability, rapid germination and renewal.

Sentences describing longan

1, Su Song, a native of Tongan County, quanzhou county in the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote "Illustration of Materia Medica" (106 1): "Longan was born in Nanhai Valley, and litchi can be seen everywhere in Fujian, Guangdong and Sichuan today.

2. The magistrate Wang of Quanzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty praised longan: "Excellent work, light and red, sweeping the floor, thousands of trees call dragons. It's really like a jigsaw puzzle, but it's really a slave to litchi. "

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