Emperor fruit is large and hard with a fine sub-acid sweet flavor. The Emperor is an unusually large variety of lychee. It is good tasting with a large seed. The skin (pericarp) of the fruit has very distinct bumps. This is a mountain variety, adapts well to container culture and tends to fruit consistently.

Mauritiu originates in southern China, but it is named for the island off the southeast coast of Africa where extensive commercial plantings have been in production for decades. It is the variety of choice for commercial growers in Florida because it is a regular and heavy producer. The fruit is sweet, pink to red, and produces chicken tongue seeds in about one out of ten fruit.

Sweet Heart is hands down the finest lychee. It is a consistent producer of huge heart shaped fruit all having chicken tongue seeds. Production is close to that of Mauritius inspiring small commercial plantings by growers targeting high-end produce markets and gourmet restaurants. It is quickly becoming the variety of choice by dooryard growers for its reliability and superior quality.

Brewster is one of the most extensively planted commercial varieties in Florida. The fruit is large, deep red, and it is of excellent eating quality. The tree is a vigorous upright grower that is well suited to Florida. Like many other lychees it tends to be an alternate bearer producing good crops every two out of three years. Brewster lychees are charming and moist.

Haak Yip - From China. Medium sized fruit, red, sweet and of excellent quality. Foliage is a dark green color the name means black leaf and fruiting is fairly regular. Large, greenish-red fruit with delicious, crisp and sweet taste.

Bengal is an excellent tasting large fruit that is grown commercially in Africa and Australia. However, irregular bearing habits have kept this cultivar out of commercial orchards in Florida. The tree is a vigorous grower having a spreading habit.

Native to China, the Philippines and India, lychees are a delectable fruit which will add flavor to fruit salads. Lychees are eaten fresh or dried, but can lychees have become very popular. Unfortunately, lychees don't have a marvelously long shelf life, and are relatively easily spoiled in transport and handling. The trees themselves bear heavily when the conditions suit them, but they are disgracefully demanding in climatic conditions.

Lychee is a well known popular Chinese fruit, resident to low elevations of the provinces of Guangdong and Fujian in Southern China.

Taste and Season:The tissue of the Lychee (once peeled from its hard spiky shell) tastes sweet, fragrant and delicious, however unfortunately the season for Lychee is fairly short which is from May to mid July. As a result different kinds of canned Lychee, Lychee juices and Lychee flavoured products have become offered in supermarket.

China started to sell to other countries Lychees many years ago, but Lychees are hard to export because they ruin quickly. Most quantities are shipped to the United States and other overseas markets by air, or by sea in reefer. FDL has direct relationship with juice producers in more than 40 countries around the world. We are continuously working with fast growing markets in particular in China and can source well-established and new fruit types for any necessity.