lychee$506573$ - traducción al Inglés
!["Lici Fruit Tree" in [[Michal Boym]]'s ''[[Flora Sinensis]]'' (1657)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flora Sinensis - Lychee.JPG?width=200 "\"Lici Fruit Tree\" in [[Michal Boym]]'s ''[[Flora Sinensis]]'' (1657)")
![''L. chinensis'' tree at [[Parque Municipal Summit]] in [[Panama]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lychee (Litchi chinensis)-01.JPG?width=200 "''L. chinensis'' tree at [[Parque Municipal Summit]] in [[Panama]]")
![[[Pierre Sonnerat]]'s drawing from ''Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine'' (1782)<ref name="Sonnerat">Sonnerat, P. (1782) Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine, fait par ordre du Roi, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781. Tome second, p. 230. Paris.</ref>](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sonnerat litchi.jpg?width=200 "[[Pierre Sonnerat]]'s drawing from ''Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine'' (1782)<ref name=\"Sonnerat\">Sonnerat, P. (1782) Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine, fait par ordre du Roi, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781. Tome second, p. 230. Paris.</ref>")
![China 3 cultivar]] of lychee fruit](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lichubagan3.JPG?width=200 "China 3 cultivar]] of lychee fruit")
![Lychee fruits at a market in [[West Bengal]], India](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lychee fruits at a market in West Bengal, India.jpg?width=200 "Lychee fruits at a market in [[West Bengal]], India")
Definición
Wikipedia
Lychee (US: LEE-chee; UK: LIE-chee; Litchi chinensis; Chinese: 荔枝; pinyin: lìzhī; Jyutping: lai6 zi1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nāi-chi) is a monotypic taxon and the sole member in the genus Litchi in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae.
It is a tropical tree native to South China. The tree has been introduced throughout Southeast Asia and South Asia. Cultivation in China is documented from the 11th century. China is the main producer of lychees, followed by Vietnam, India, other countries in Southeast Asia, other countries in the Indian subcontinent, Madagascar, and South Africa. A tall evergreen tree, it bears small fleshy sweet fruits. The outside of the fruit is a pink-red, rough-textured soft shell.
Lychee seeds contain methylene cyclopropyl glycine which has caused hypoglycemia associated with outbreaks of encephalopathy in undernourished Indian and Vietnamese children who consumed lychee fruit.
