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 ...

Like many tropical perennial tree crops, longan germplasm is maintained as living trees in field genebanks and varieties are subject to vegetative propagation during the process of germplasm exchange.

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, ...