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Colin Malsingh | profile | all galleries >> Gardening >> Exotic & Medicinal Plants >> longan tree view | thumbnails | slideshow
These are usually seen as dried fruit (available from Chinese herb suppliers).
Sometimes they can be found fresh in the UK and I saved the seeds from some I bought.
Only a few germinated and here is the result, showing progress over the early months.

Sadly I read that commercial production uses grafting to propogate them as it can take up to seven years
before a plant grown from seed will produce any fruit. Since the trees can grow much bigger than our garden could cope with, that may not be a problem....!
6165 Longan seedlings
6165 Longan seedlings
7480-Longan Apr2010.jpg
7480-Longan Apr2010.jpg
7477-Longan Apr2010.jpg
7477-Longan Apr2010.jpg
7502-Longan 02May.jpg
7502-Longan 02May.jpg