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The lychee
is indigenous to the south of China
where a sub-tropical climate prevails. Mention is made of the fruit in the very earliest Chinese literature and travelogues. |
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Jan Pierre Sonnerat, an Occidental, was the first to give a description of this fruit in 1872. He also gave the botanical name litchi chinensis to this member of the sapindaceae family. |
