Sometimes you learn about a tree with flavorful fruit that you had never heard of before and wonder what took you so long. Or maybe you heard of the tree, but had put it out of your mind due to its ...

A longan seed was extracted from a fresh fruit and sown into soil. It took over 20 days for the seedling to come up and developed its first leaves. After that, the plant kept slowly growing. After ...

Although longan and lychee trees are closely related fruit trees in South Asia, longan fruit – often called dragon’s eye fruit – isn’t as well known. Longan trees (Dimocarpus longan), which grow up to ...

When Tom Spellman began lecturing on fruit trees more than two decades ago, his audience skewed primarily older with lots of people in their 60s and 70s. In recent years, that’s started to change.