June Update - We are Picking and Shipping Emperor Fruit Now!
We are now harvesting the Emperor lychee fruit this week. The Emperor Lychee is a very rare and highly prized variety. It has been nearly 6 years since we have had Emperor Lychee fruit. As you can see from the photo below , it is a very unique and spectacular lychee. The Emperor is a mountain variety and the tree has very special characteristics.
The leaves are smaller than the Sweet HeartTM and Brewster, but the flavor is different. We have obtained a very limited quantity of this highly unusual fruit and are making it available to our special clients. Click on the link below to purchase Emperor Lychee Fruit.
If you feel more comfortable ordering offline please call (954) 648-6020.
If you live in our area you can come to our grove and sample lychee fruit on weekends from 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM or come to our nursery at 11600 SW 45th ST. (Orange Drive) 7 days a week and sample and purchase fruit and trees.
A panicle of Emperors - Note the immense size of these fruits.
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The Mauritius is a popular commercial variety with a larger seed, but a very pleasant sub-acid sweet flavor. It is typically an earlier variety than the Brewster.
To purchase Mauritius lychees click here:
Purchase Mauritius Lychees
Featured Lychee Recipe - Grouper with a Lychee Chile Veloute
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Master Chef Peter Krause has created a marvelous recipe using fresh lychee, grouper and chile. The recipe is brilliantly illustrated in painstaking graphic and audio detail.
In all of our years of collecting and compiling recipes, that incorporate lychee, we must flatly say that this is the very best yet and sets the platinum standard for lychee cuisine.
Come and feast your eyes and palate on this masterpiece. We convey our enthusiastic gratitude to Peter for sharing his recipe with those of us who love lychee.
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Almost every one who grows a lychee tree asks the same question: Why doesn't my tree bear any fruit? This is a common problem with lychee trees and
the answer and solution make for an interesting discussion. This article, divided into 5 parts, explains the morphology of lychee flowers and will help both the
backyard grower and commercial farmer in identifying essential characteristics of bloom pannicles as well as methods to overcome the reluctance of lychee trees to annually bloom.
Featured Lychee Product: Fresh Lychees, Kai Lychee Vodka and Emperor Lychee trees
Kai Lychee Vodka For the first time ever, superb lychee vodka is available. This unique vodka is derived from the distillation of rare Yellow-Blossom rice
grown in the Cam Giang district along North Viet Nams Red River Delta. The vodka is infused with pure lychee juice and the resulting blend is a remarkable
taste experience. The vodka has the flavor and fragrance of real lychee and is superb for making lychee themed drinks.
To learn more about Kai Lychee Vodka and see some original great drink recipes:
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The Sweet HeartTM is the very popular new fruit type from Homestead that has a large fruit and a small seed and as is considered one of the finest lychee fruit by everyone who has tried it. Last year the fruit was so popular that we sold out as soon as it became available. This fruit is very rare and hard to come by, but we have a very special arrangement with the primary grower.
To purchase Sweetheart lychees click here:
Purchase Sweetheart Lychees
The Mauritius
is a popular commercial variety with a larger seed, but a very pleasant sub-acid sweet flavor. It is typically an earlier variety than the Brewster.
To purchase Mauritius lychees click here:
Purchase Mauritius Lychees
The Haak yip (Black Leaf), is another very large fruit with a small seed. It shares many characteristics with the Sweetheart and is felt that the Sweetheart may in fact be a hybrid of the Haak yip.
To purchase Haak yip lychees click here:
Purchase Haak yip Lychees
Emperor Lychee Trees: After many years this rare variety of lychee is now available again. The Emperor lychee tree is a very unique variety.
It has a more diminuitive habit of growth than the Sweet HeartTM, Brewster or Mauritius and is especially suited to container culture.
Unlike most all other varieties the Emperor seems to be more tolerant to drying out, because of it's very vigorous and extensive root system. The Emperor is easily distinguished from
other lychee trees by the smaller leaf size. The fruit tends to be quite large and is characterized by prominent bumps on the pericarp (skin).
To view Emperor Treea and fruit click here:
Fruiting Emperor trees and fruit
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