The top three best varieties of lychee are sticky rice cake, sugar poppy, and toffee.
1, sticky rice cake
Known as the king of lychee, after breaking open the shell, inside the flesh is crystal clear, soft and tender, thick and juicy, hard to bite a mouth full of lychee flavor, ripe sticky rice cake, a hint of sourness are not with. Sticky rice cake is also a typical small nucleus lychee, a lychee is full of flesh, eating quite addictive.
2, sugar poppy
From the name can be seen, it is like sugar, pure sweet flavor, taste is very good, the flesh is sweet and crisp, the skin is thin, a little bit of force can be broken off, a bite, a little bit like a creamy jelly-like feeling.
3, Feizixiao
"A ride in the red dust Feizixiao, no one knows is Lychee to", Feizixiao this variety is so named. But it is actually not good varieties, belonging to the type of early maturity, the shell are basically green or green with less red, a little prickly in the hand, the flesh is full of juicy, but the core is very small grains. If it is green skin, the taste will be acidic, red skin it will be a little sweet.
Lychee distribution range
1, Guangdong: China's distribution of lychee is the largest province, more than 80 counties and cities throughout the province. Shenzhen Nanshan District because of the red loamy sandy loam soil, oceanic climatic conditions, as well as unique geographical and environmental conditions, the production of lychee has a crystalline flesh, fruit crisp and sweet and other characteristics.
2, Fujian: the production of litchi more Putian, Zhangpu, Longhai, Fuzhou, Minhou, Fuqing and other counties, cities; followed by Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Xianyou, Nanjing, Nan'an, Yongchun and other more than 20 counties and cities, but also a certain amount of production. Varieties include Yuanhong, Scholar's Red, Lanzhu, Yuanxiang, Chenzhi and so on.
3, Guangxi: more lychee production of Guiping, Lingshan two counties, followed by Hengxian, Yulin, Cangwu, Longan, Pingnan, Nanning, Longzhou, Shangsi and other more than 20 counties and cities. Varieties include lilac, black leaf, big brown, water lychee and so on.
4, Sichuan: lychee concentrated production in southern Sichuan counties, talk about the most Hejiang. Varieties have big red hug, Chung Mu leaf, green skin, etc.. Hejiang, Sichuan, litchi has more than 2,000 years of cultivation history, as one of the country's main producing areas of late-ripening litchi, in the country from mid-July to late August in the listing of litchi, Hejiang litchi production accounted for more than 95% of the country.