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Originally Posted by orlok
Go easy on them then  . Yes, I only know lychees with the hard brown spiky shell, and am also very fond of them - unfortunately not very easy to get over here, at least in the cultural wasteland in which I live. Have to make do with cherries, which is nowadays one of my fave fruits. |
Stop the presses! "Spiky shell?" Lychee have a rough skin (that I wouldn't call spiky,) either
red and leathery when new or
brown and brittle when older. Look at these photo links.
Is it possible that you are actually getting
'rambutan?' That another cousin with the same white flesh, large stone in the center, but has a very spiky outer hull. Again, red when newly harvested and turning brown with age. Those do taste quite a bit like Longan, but larger.
Stitchawl