Sometimes you learn about a tree with flavorful fruit that you had never heard of before and wonder what took you so long. Or maybe you heard of the tree, but had put it out of your mind due to its ...

PAILIN: Sen Sokhoeun, a longan farmer here in western Cambodia, is confident in sales this season because direct exports to ...

Five things to do in the garden: Fruit. Longan (Dimocarpus longan) is related to lychee. While the peel of lychee is pinkish-red and bumpy, that of the longan is brown and smooth. In both cases, ...

Researchers in South China are celebrating the first batch of fruit from a new hybrid litchi tree developed at Guangdong ...

Compared with its brilliantly colored botanical cousins lychee and rambutan, longan is pedestrian at first glance. The plum-sized longan fruit is featureless and mousy brown when ripe. However, once ...

A new hybrid litchi tree, cross-bred from litchi and longan, has borne fruit for the first time this year in South China's ...

A farmer in Soc Trang Province successfully propagated the new type of longan after accidentally discovering a longan with purple peel. A farmer in Soc Trang Province successfully propagated the new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. lychee, longan, and rambutan in a basket - leonov.o/Shutterstock Progress can sometimes be a double-edged sword, bringing with it ...