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litchi

Evergreen tree belonging to the soapberry family. The delicately flavoured egg-shaped fruit has a rough brownish outer skin and a hard seed. The litchi is native to southern China, where it has been cultivated for 2,000 years. (Litchi chinensis, family Sapindaceae.)


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``I lost a lot of plants at my nursery, but at home in Van Nuys, I grow mangos and litchis, and they were just fine because I put them in next to the house.
 
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