After entering May, it also ushered in the market season of litchi, and fresh litchi can be seen everywhere in supermarkets and fruit shops. Litchi is a southern fruit, which has a history of nearly a hundred years in China. Ripe litchi is rich in water, delicious and sweet, which makes people want to eat more and more. Eating 300 lychees a day is never too lazy to grow into a Lingnan person. This is a famous saying of Su Dongpo, a writer in the Song Dynasty, which shows how popular litchi was in ancient times. Of course, there are many varieties of litchi now, about a dozen varieties, such as Feizixiao, glutinous rice cake and Guangxi flavor. Just listening to the name is dazzling. Which variety should I buy?

This paper focuses on five representative litchi varieties, which are also litchi. Different varieties have different ripening time, and the taste and taste are also very different. After reading it, you will know which one suits your taste better! Feizixiao is a variety of litchi, alias Luotangpu and Yubao. It is a household name among many varieties of litchi, because its name comes from Du Mu's poem "Riding a princess and laughing in the world of mortals", and everyone knows that it is litchi. It is said that in order to please Yang Guifei, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty sent her fresh lychees from the far south.

This variety belongs to precocious litchi. Its characteristic is that the peel is green and red, not the redder the better. The best ones are also red and green. Hard to the touch, the flesh color is like ash, crisp and sweet, with a little stone flavor and sweet taste. Guiwei litchi, also known as Gui Zhi, is named after its rich sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance. Its listing time is later than that of Feizixiao, and it is mainly planted in Guangdong and Guangxi. As an aristocrat in litchi, Guiwei is far superior to other kinds of litchi in terms of peel thickness, litchi stone size and pulp taste. Its biggest feature is bright red, with thin and sharp spines on its shell and tiny nucleus.

The meat is firm, crisp and juicy. There will be a lot of juice overflowing at the entrance. Because of the taste of osmanthus, people will feel particularly sweet after eating it, which is very popular with the public. Fructus Trichosanthis litchi, also known as Zengcheng Fructus Trichosanthis, is a specialty of Zengcheng, Guangdong Province, and the most expensive variety among many lychees. Few people have eaten it, because there are only three mother trees in Zengcheng, which are rare and precious, and most of the fruits are used for auction. The highest price 10000 days, breaking the Guinness World Record! It is no exaggeration to call the litchi circle Hermes.

The characteristic of Fructus Trichosanthis litchi is that its skin is red and purple, and a green line passes through it, so it is named Fructus Trichosanthis. Princess smiles, which is better, cinnamon, litchi and Wang Mai? The taste is very different. If you want to buy rice cakes again, the time to market is similar to that in Guangxi, which belongs to late-maturing varieties and is unique to Guangdong. As can be known from the name, the taste of this litchi is mainly sweet and glutinous, and the pulp is rich in litchi aroma. Compared with other litchi varieties, glutinous rice litchi is larger in shape, looks like a heart and has higher sweetness.