Lychee is a unique tropical fruit tree with distinctive fruits that appear like strawberries covered with rough, dimpled skin. The exotic fruits are a staple in Asian markets and are now increasingly ...

Watch the captivating journey of a lychee seed transforming into a healthy lychee plant over 76 days in this time-lapse video. From peeling the fruit to witnessing daily stages of sprouting, stem ...

Question: I am adding a few fruit trees to my landscape. Will a lychee tree grow locally? Answer: Only in a warm area where temperatures stay above freezing can you grow lychee trees. It is a very ...

Question: My lychee tree has finished fruiting with only a few fruits this year. It has grown a bit large for the site in my yard. How do I get more fruit and when can I prune the tree? Answer: Like ...

A new pest in the state is a serious threat to lychee trees, so everyone growing a lychee tree will want to learn how to protect it. This new insect is the Lychee Erinose Mite and goes by the ...

There’s more to a lychee than the sweet, delicate flavor of the flesh beneath its scaly pink-red skin. The tropical fruit also has a rich agricultural tale to tell. While lychee is not widely grown in ...

Jonathan Crane, a tropical-fruit crop specialist at UF’s Tropical Research & Education Center in Homestead, picks lychee off one of the 216 trees on the research campus site. He said the fruits ...