Compared with its brilliantly colored botanical cousins lychee and rambutan, longan is pedestrian at first glance. The plum-sized longan fruit is featureless and mousy brown when ripe. However, once ...

lychee, longan, and rambutan in a basket - leonov.o/Shutterstock Progress can sometimes be a double-edged sword, bringing with it regrettable food trends like 2021's glut of nearly identical hard ...

Longan looks like lychee, is much sweeter and yields twice as much as the best lychee tree. Its fruit is smaller than lychee, and has brown smooth skin and therefore is called “Little Brother of ...

Sometimes called a berry and sometimes called a nut, longan is actually neither. Instead, it is a fruit related to the lychee. Longans grow in clusters on trees. The fruit is very round and about the ...

Longan is a fruit similar to lychee. It may have several health benefits and is a good source of vitamin C. Claims of these health benefits are generally anecdotal, not scientific. The debate about ...

A farmer in Soc Trang Province successfully propagated the new type of longan after accidentally discovering a longan with purple peel. A farmer in Soc Trang Province successfully propagated the new ...

Sometimes you learn about a tree with flavorful fruit that you had never heard of before and wonder what took you so long. Or maybe you heard of the tree, but had put it out of your mind due to its ...

Longan fruit, also known as dragon's eye, has multiple health benefits, including that it's packed with nutrients, such as vitamin C, potassium, and iron, that can support many aspects of your health.