litchi

Bumpy red fruit

Litchi is a tropical fruit with a rough, reddish shell enclosing translucent white flesh around a dark seed.

The flesh is sweet and fragrant, popular fresh or in desserts and drinks.

Native to southern China, the fruit grows in clusters on evergreen trees.

Also spelled lychee.

fruit

rambutan

Hairy-skinned tropical fruit

juicy · sweet · tropical · seed · peel · flesh · canned · fresh · fragrant · cluster

cultural

Chinese

Of that Asian nation

  • GuangdongSoutheastern Chinese province
  • FujianCoastal southeastern Chinese province
  • festivalOrganized public celebration

gift · wedding · prosperity · summer · Southeast Asia · Vietnam · Thailand · India · Madagascar · reunion

culinary

martini

Gin-vermouth cocktail

smoothie · pudding · jelly · ice cream · sake · bubble tea · tart · cheesecake · glaze · sauce

botanical

evergreen

Retains foliage year-round

cultivar · grafting · pollination · flowering · canopy · grove · yield · Mauritius · seedling · rootstock

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litchis

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G