A longan seed was extracted from a fresh fruit and sown into soil. It took over 20 days for the seedling to come up and ...

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 ...

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, ...