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 ...

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 ...

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 developed its first leaves. After that, the plant kept slowly growing. After ...

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, ...

lychee, longan, and rambutan in a basket - leonov.o/Shutterstock Progress can sometimes be a double-edged sword, bringing with it regrettable food trends like 2021's glut of nearly identical hard ...