Tropicals > Dimocarpus > Dimocarpus longan > Dimocarpus longan
Dimocarpus longan
Longan or Longyan
| Family |
| Sapindaceae |
| Genus |
| Dimocarpus |
| Species |
| longan |
| Category |
| Tropicals |
| Type |
| Tree (evergreen) |
| Height |
| 9-12 m |
| Spread |
| 14 m |
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Description and Growing Information
Flowering Period
| Habitat |
| South and southeast Asia. |
| Leaf Description |
| The evergreen, alternate, paripinnate leaves have 4 to 10 opposite leaflets, elliptic, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, blunt-tipped; 10-20 cm long and 3.5-5 cm wide; leathery, wavy, glossy-green on the upper surface, minutely hairy and grayish-green beneath. |
| Flower Description |
| The pale-yellow, 5- to 6-petalled, hairy-stalked flowers, larger than those of the lychee, are borne in upright terminal panicles, male and female mingled. |
| Fruit Description |
| The longan ("dragon eyes") is so named because its fruit, when it is shelled, resembles an eyeball. The seed is small, round and hard, and of an enamel-like, lacquered black. The fully ripened, freshly harvested shell is bark-like, thin and firm. |
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