Hanging green: Because the shell is slightly green, six points are divided into dividends, and each point is named after a circle of green lines. According to "Guangdong Xinyu", hanging green is "crisp as a pear, and the pulp is gone. If you shell it, it will remain unchanged for three days. " Among them, Zengcheng Guaqing has always been a tribute of the emperor. According to legend, during the Qianlong period, Zengcheng people cut down 100 hanging green trees due to the annual tribute, and there was only one mother tree left in the hanging green garden in Litchi Town, Zengcheng, which was called "hanging green in the west". There is still a result of hanging green in Xiyuan every year. 200 1, there is a litchi hanging in Xiyuan, setting a world record for auctioning "the most expensive fruit".
Guiwei: It is characterized by sweet-scented osmanthus, and the meat is cool and sweet. The skin is light red, the lobes on the skin are sharp and prickly, and the skin is thin and brittle; There are normal large nuclei and degenerated focal nuclei. There is a kind of cinnamon called "duck head green" with dark green patches, which is an excellent variety.
Glutinous rice paste: It is characterized by thick meat, rich juice and sweet as honey. The skin is bright red and thin, and the lobes on the skin have no peaks. The nucleus is so small that it has degenerated into seedless.
Other common main litchi varieties are:
March Red: It is the most precocious variety, and it is listed around May every year.
Feizixiao: Early-maturing variety with red skin. Legend has it that Emperor Tang Ming smiled at Yang Guifei, and the litchi sent thousands of miles away was the princess's smile.
Hu Aizhi: According to legend, an ancient Shangshu passed by Lingnan and took lychees sent by villagers into his arms, hence the name.
Jade purse: the fruit is huge, the meat is thick and the core is small.
Litchi in China ancient books was originally called "Litchi". It is generally believed that litchi originated from the wild forest in the south of China. In the 3rd century, Jaco's Lu Wu recorded that "there are many lychees in Cangwu, which were born in the mountains and planted by others". Cangwu is in today's Guangxi. Wild litchi trees can still be found in the virgin forests of Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan. It is also recorded in Miscellanies of Xijing that in the second century BC, when Emperor Liu Bang proclaimed himself emperor, Qiu Zhao Tuo used to eat lychees. Litchi was registered as a Lingnan specialty in People in the first century and Guang Zhi in the third century. It can be seen that litchi has been planted and produced in southern China for 2000 years.