Live Plant - AIR LAYERED RARE FILIPINO
LONGAN READY TO BEAR FRUIT - KOHALA VAR.
Closely allied to the glamorous lychee, in the family Sapindaceae,
the longan, or lungan, also known as dragon's eye or eyeball, and as
mamoncillo chino in Cuba, has been referred to as the "little
brother of the lychee", or li-chihnu, "slave of the lychee".
Botanically, it is placed in a separate genus, and is currently
designated Dimocarpus longan Lour. (syns. Euphoria longan
Steud.; E. longana Lam.; Nephelium longana
Cambess.). According to the esteemed scholar, Prof. G. Weidman
Groff, the longan is less important to the Chinese as an edible
fruit, more widely used than the lychee in Oriental medicine