When do lychees ripen? Many people are very interested in this question. Let me analyze this question for you. Lychee has high nutritional valueMoreover, the effects and functions of litchi are particularly beneficial to human health. Although litchi is delicious, many people do not know much about it, including when litchi matures. Below, food experts will introduce some morphological characteristics of litchi to help everyone better understand it. When do lychees ripen?Evergreen tree, usually not more than 10 meters high, sometimes up to 15 meters or more, with gray-black bark; twigs cylindrical, brown-red, densely covered with white lenticels. Leaves with petioles are 10-25 cm long or longer; leaflets are 2 or 3 pairs, less often 4 pairs, thinly leathery or leathery, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, sometimes oblong-lanceolate, 6-15 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, apex acuminate or caudate-short acuminate, entire, dark green and shiny on the ventral side, pink-green on the dorsal side, glabrous on both sides; lateral veins are often slender, not very obvious on the ventral side, obvious or slightly convex on the dorsal side; petiolules are 7-8 mm long. Inflorescence is terminal, broad, and branched; pedicels are slender, 2-4 mm long, sometimes thick and short; calyx is golden yellow with short hairs; stamens are 6-7, sometimes 8, filaments are about 4 mm long; ovary is densely covered with small tubercles and bristles. The fruit is ovoid to nearly spherical, 2 to 3.5 cm long, and usually dark red to bright red when ripe; the seeds are completely wrapped in a fleshy aril. Flowering and fruiting period The flowering period is spring and the fruiting period is summer. Of course, with the continuous development of planting technology, the normal growing environment of fruits can now be artificially changed. It is no longer strange to eat watermelon in winter, so you can buy lychees in the supermarket at any time. |
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