# lychee

By [xcfgfoop](https://paragraph.com/@xcfgfoop) · 2022-09-29

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`Evergreen trees, usually no more than 10 meters high, sometimes up to 15 meters or higher, bark gray black; Branchlets columnar, brown red, densely covered with white lenticels.`

`Leaves and stalks 10-25 cm long or over; Leaflets 2 or 3 pairs, less than 4 pairs, thin leathery or leathery, lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, sometimes long elliptic lanceolate, 6-15 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, sharp tip or tail shaped short acuminate, entire margin, dark green ventral surface, shiny, green back flour, hairless on both sides;`

`Lateral veins often slender, not obvious on ventral surface, obvious or slightly convex on abaxial surface; Petiolules 7-8 mm long.`

`Inflorescence terminal, broad, much branched; Pedicel slender, 2-4 mm long, sometimes thick and short;`

`Calyx covered with golden yellow short tomentose; Stamens 6-7, sometimes 8, filaments ca. 4 mm; Ovary densely covered with small tumors and bristles.`

`Fruit ovoid to subglobose, 2-3.5 cm long, usually dark red to bright red when mature; The seeds are all wrapped by fleshy aril. Flowering in spring, fruiting in summer.`

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