Large quantities of lychee may suffer from lychee disease, the onset of hunger, nausea, dizziness, pallor, palpitations, cold sweats, weakness, and in severe cases, convulsions, pupil shrinkage, weak and frequent pulse, irregular respiration and sudden coma. This symptom may be related to the presence of lychee in the presence of a substance that can lower blood glucose, this substance is called a-hypomethyl cyclopropylglycine.
Lychee Sapindaceae, lychee genus evergreen tree, about 10 meters high. The pericarp has scaly mottled protuberances, bright red, purplish red. Ripe to bright red; seeds all wrapped in fleshy aril. Fl. spring, fr. summer. Fruit flesh yielding fresh translucent curd-like, flavorful, but intolerant of storage.