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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. |
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