In Russia not to meet fruit of a lychee on counters. However for Chinese it not so exotic because there the lychee is eaten, since 2 centuries BC. This tropical fruit has also other names, one of which ""the Chinese plum"".
Lychees one of darlings and the esteemed fruit in China, but grow up it and on other continents. For example, in America, Africa. It differs in the low caloric content and rich vitamin-mineral structure. Most of all in a lychee of potassium and magnesium therefore its consumption is shown to people with diseases of a cardiovascular system.
But not only cores appreciate this overseas fruit. Hindus recognized it as powerful aphrodisiac. The lychee brings harmful cholesterol out of an organism, blagovtorno influences the system of digestion and a kidney, tones up, anesthetizes, saves from thirst and normalizes a figure.
Externally plant represents a tree of 15-20 meters in height which grows very slowly and begins to fructify only by 8 years. Fruits of rounded shape, size about walnut with a rough surface. Some types of a lychee remind it and on other signs if the grade has a gray-green peel (such nut in an immature look).
Only the peel is cleaned rather easily, and white juicy pulp with a single large seed opens inside. Chinese call secretly a lychee an eye of a dragon. The peel of a fruit can vary from gray-green till bright red color. Pulp can be white or cream. Depending on a grade intensity of taste: sweet or sweet-sour.