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So, how did it taste? Longanish or not?
seriously very weird stuff...Looks like longan is trying to scare away insects by appearing to be a hedgehog
It tasted like a longan with 80% of the flavour removed.
Quote from: red durian on January 05, 2013, 09:11:35 PMIt tasted like a longan with 80% of the flavour removed.Are you saying the fruit was insipid or that it just had a non-longan flavour? Would you say it's worth growing for the eating quality?
Yes, it is D. longan. More precisely, Dimocarpus longan ssp. malesianus var. echinatus. I think.Regular longans are Dimocarpus longan ssp. longan var. longan.
You were right, murahilin. Excellent work!
so the common name is spiny tropical longan. looks kind of like the rambutan of longan.
Quote from: fyliu on January 28, 2013, 04:43:39 AMso the common name is spiny tropical longan. looks kind of like the rambutan of longan.I know, it just doesn't look like what a member of this species ought to look like. It would be like finding out that Don King was a Homo sapien.