La cultivación de Litchi (en inglés: Lychee) comienza en la región del Sur de China, Malaysia y norte de Vietnam. Esta fruta crece de forma salvaje en la providencia de Guangdong y en la isla de Hainan. En los record extraoficiales dicen que en China los Litchi estan desde 2000 BC. Referencia en el libro "Handbook of environmental physiology of fruit crops" del autor: "Andersen, Peter A" del año 1994 en la paginas 123 a la 140.
Cultivation of lychee began in the region of southern China, Malaysia, and northern Vietnam. Wild trees still grow in rainforest in Guangdong province and on Hainan Island. Unofficial records in China refer to lychee as far back as 2000 BC.[7]
In the 1st century, fresh lychees were in such demand at the Imperial Court that a special courier service with fast horses would bring the fresh fruit from Guangdong. There was great demand for lychee in the Song Dynasty (960-1279), according to Cai Xiang, in his Li chi pu (Treatise on Lychees). It was also the favourite fruit of Emperor Li Longji (Xuanzong)'s favoured concubine Yang Yuhuan (Yang Guifei). The emperor had the fruit delivered at great expense to the capital.
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