Longan is a plant belonging to the genus Longan of Sapindaceae, which grows in the south subtropical region, likes warm and humid climate, can endure short-term frost, and will not freeze to death in a short time at the low temperature of 0-4℃. Longan is a fruit tree that likes sunshine, so it is more suitable to choose hilly and mountainous areas or flat land with no frost and sunny leeward in winter, and sandy red soil or sand with deep soil layer.
Also known as longan, the longest life span can reach more than 400 years. Fruit can be eaten raw or processed into dried products, and meat, core, skin and roots can be used as medicine. The fruit ripens in July-August, with yellow-brown fresh fruit and rich nutrition. It has been loved by people since ancient times and is regarded as a precious tonic.
Selection skills of longan
It is best to choose longan with large particles, thick meat, round and uniform shape, soft, brown, translucent and sweet meat. It can be identified by peeling the roll. If there are white spots on the shell of longan, it means that the meat has begun to mold, and there are several white moldy flowers on the shell, so the meat has been slightly moldy, and the meat with many white moldy flowers has been seriously moldy.
Peel longan by hand, the meat core is easy to separate, and the meat is soft but not sticky. The inner core is not easy to separate, and the meat is hard. Longan falls on the table. Good longan is not easy to roll on the plane because of its high sugar content. The shell, meat and core are connected together, while poor longan is easy to roll. There are many ways to eat longan. Fresh longan can be eaten raw. Longan meat can be made into various sweet soup snacks. Longan meat, lotus seeds, rock sugar and sweet-scented osmanthus can be made into sweet and nourishing longan lotus seed soup.