As a qualified foodie, the first thing is certainly to know what are the varieties of lychee, and the second is about the listing time of lychee, different varieties of lychee listing time are not the same, yo, so we go to the usual lychee when to pay attention to.

China's lychee is mainly distributed in the range of 18-29 degrees north latitude, Guangdong cultivation is the most, followed by Fujian and Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Taiwan and other provinces also have a small amount of cultivation. Among them, Guangdong's litchi varieties are the most numerous, mainly March Red, Feizixiao, Black Leaf, Guiwei, Hanging Green, Glutinous Rice Cake, Huaizhi, Shangshu Huai and so on.

March Red

Time to market: late April - late May

Matured in the second half of the lunar calendar in March, so the name of the March Red, the earliest ripe species. March red skin bright red, flesh yellow and white, tough and slightly brown, the core of the fruit is large, the taste of sweet with acid, after eating the residue, medium quality, the market time is relatively early, suitable for tasting.

White Sugar Poppy

Market Period: Late May

Listening to the name, I know very sweet, White Sugar Poppy is also known as Bee Sugar Poppy, China Red. This variety of pulp crisp, taste sweet, is the best quality of early maturity varieties in Guangdong Province.

White Wax

Marketing period: early June to mid-June

White Wax is a high-quality medium-early maturity varieties, glossy leaf surface, wax layer, flat shell scales, flesh white wax color, meat sweet, juicy, thick meat and nucleus is also a small, a special lychee aroma, is one of the varieties of litchi in Gaozhou City, Guangdong Province, the main producing areas of litchi. It is one of the main producing areas of litchi in Gaizhou City, Guangdong Province.

Faizixiao

Marketing period: late April to mid-June

Lychee sector of the net red, the name is taken from the sentence everyone will recite "a ride on red dust, Faizixiao", is a selected variety of lychee. Lychee looks big, full, shell color green with red, there are small thorns, flesh color as white wax, taste sweet, the focus is on the core is super small. Feizixiao is one of the hotter lychee varieties currently being sold online.

Black Leaf

Market Period: Mid-June

Black Leaf Lychee is named for its blackened leaves, short ovoid fruit, rounded or obtuse top of the fruit, the fruit genus is flat; skin crimson, thinner shells, cracked piece of flat obtuse, even sized, regular, cracks and sutures are obvious; meat is firm, crisp, sweet and juicy, most of them are large nuclei. Most of them are big kernel. Although often spat on the core of the fruit is large, but the aroma is strong, many lychee ice cream or cheese are used to flavor it.

Gweiwei

Marketing period: late June to early July

Gweiweiwei lychee, named for its cinnamon flavor, is the "aristocrat" of lychees

, with a prickly shell and a stripe down the middle. Gui flavor has all red and duck head green two strains. The fruit is spherical, light red shell, thin and brittle; cracked piece protruding small and pointed, from both sides of the tip around the top of the fruit has a circle of deeper ring groove, the two for the characteristics of Gui Wei; meat yellow-white, soft and full, small nucleus, taste very sweet.

Glutinous rice cake

Market period: late June to early July

The name sounds a little random, but it is the best of lychee. Fruit shape is partial heart-shaped, crooked stalk, fruit shape is larger, the color is bright red between wax yellow, the skin spiny feeling is not obvious, the flesh is milky white, translucent, flesh is very thick, the kernel is small, eat tender and sweet, natural sugar is high.

Hanging Green

Marketing period: late June to early July

Hanging Green, also one of the best varieties of lychee, is named for the green mark in the middle of the lychee. Flesh especially crisp, sweet and slightly fragrant, known as the "King of Lychee", the status is unrivaled. Zengcheng City, Guangdong Province, held in 2002, the green litchi auction, a litchi sold 555,000 yuan of the sky. This litchi picked from the city of Zengcheng "West Park" hanging green old tree, the tree has a history of more than 400 years, few results each year, the characteristics of its shell color four points of green and six points of red, there is a green line running through the fruit body, the flesh of the crisp mouth with a slight aroma, peeled off the outer skin of the paper bag is not wet paper. In recent years, hanging green also crowded into the fruit industry "Forbes list", is one of the world's four most expensive fruit, successfully on the top of the lychee contempt chain.

Non-nuclear lychee

Market period: late June to early July

Non-nuclear lychee is simply the vast majority of the gospel of the eaters, peeling shells can be swallowed whole, simply great. Nutless Lychee fruit large, average single fruit weight of 38.25 grams; peel red, brilliant, beautiful fruit shape; flesh wax white, texture more crisp, no fiber sense, sweet flesh, rich flavor.

Huai Zhi

Market period: early July

Huai Zhi is also known as Huai Zhi (rumor has it that in ancient times, there was a Shangshu passing through Lingnan, the townspeople sent lychee into the arms, so the name), acacia branch. Fruit orbicular or suborbicular, flat; shell thick and tough, deep red, cracked piece large, slightly elevated or nearly flat, arranged irregularly, near the tip of the occasional sharp spines, dense and few; meat milky white, soft and clear juicy, sweet with acidic flavor, large and long nucleus, occasional small nucleus.