Lichias.com is the company that owns the brand Ecolychees.com.
Established in Brazil, grew up and became the largest dissemination of the culture of litchi in South America It has records of more than two hundred of litchi producers in Brazil and also in Mexico and Mozambique.
In addition to market their own fruit, helps producers in the marketing of their crops.
In the year 2011 has also been a regular supplier of fresh lychee for the Canadian market at the time of the holidays year-end.
It has a international correspondent´s office in United Kindon for compliance with all countries of the English language, more specifically, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Holland, Germany, Finland, Norway, Denmark, South Africa, Madagascar, India, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and the United States.
We invite you to visit also our Portughese Portal, click here.
Estevam Costa Marques Lichias.com Foudator
Angie Swinerd Lichias.com English Correspondent
ABOUT US
We
offer only the highest quality fresh lychees throughout the period of
the national harvest of Brazil´s lychees, from our own cultivars and
cultivars of registered partners and producers from all over Brazil. We
know how to choose the best product because we are also producers of
this exotic Asian fruit. * Angie Swinerd on the Lichias.com Harvest - Taubaté - Brazil - Dic.2011
With more than 150,000 cataloged litchi
trees we have the largest base of producing lychees in the Americas. We
hired high quality agronomists working and maintaining a schedule of
investments in irrigation systems, production control, pre-and
post-harvest as well as rating systems and facilities "Packing House" in
an ongoing effort to always offer you the best product with the best
agricultural practices.
We can meet your needs and demands of
small, medium or high volume, planning and coordinating the logistics of
transport to the delivery of the product in your company.
In
Brazil we have sold primarily to distributors, wholesalers, restaurants,
hotels and processing industries, as well as delivering on the project
Lichias.com for universities and research institutions in many different
ways, always seeking to improve conditions for the healthy development
of culture the lychee in Brazil.
*Angie Swuinerd is our correspondent on England - Lichias.com - Dic.2011
Our customers are established in
all regions of the country, and we also have partnerships for export of
delicious lychees produced in Brazil to European countries, initiating
with the Netherlands, France, Britain and Italy, because we are sure
that we atempt the high quality standards required by these countries.
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you want to hire us, will be a pleasure. For this we need to know about
your experience with foreign trade, and if you have the agent import
and export to conduct the transaction. Click here to contact us.
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you want to contact our partner on england, will be a pleasure. This
partner have a great experience with foreign trade. Their agents of
import and export are able to conduct the transaction with security and
quality. Click here to contact our representant on England.
ABOUT LYCHEE, THE QUEEN OF THE FRUITS
The
Lychee (Litchi chinensis), also spelled Litchi (the U.S. FDA spelling)
or Laichi, is the sole member of the genus Litchi in the soapberry
family Sapindaceae. It is a tropical fruittree native to southern China.
It is also found south to Vietnam and Indonesia and east to the
Philippines.
It is a medium-sized evergreen tree, reaching 15-20 m
tall, with alternate pinnateleaves, each leaf 15-25 cm long, with 2-8
lateral leaflets 5-10 cm long; the terminal leaflet is absent. The newly
emerging young leaves are a bright coppery red at first, before turning
green as they expand to full size. The flowers are small,
greenish-white or yellowish-white, produced in panicles up to 30 cm
long.
The fruit is a drupe, 3-4 cm long and 3 cm in diameter. The
outside is covered by a pink-red, roughly-textured rind that is
inedible but easily removed. The inside consists of a layer of sweet,
translucent white flesh, rich in vitamin C, with a texture somewhat
similar to that of a grape. The edible flesh consists of a highly
developed aril enveloping the seed. The center contains a single glossy
brown nut-like seed, 2 cm long and 1-1.5 cm in diameter. The seed,
similar to a buckeye seed, is slightly poisonous and should not be
eaten. The fruit matures from July to October, about 100 days after
flowering.
* Estevam Costa Marques, Lichias.com Foundator and Angie Swinerd - Dic.2011
There are two subspecies:
Litchi chinensis subsp. chinensis. China, Indochina (Vietnam, Laos and cambodia). Leaves with 4 to 8 (rarely 2) leaflets.
Litchi chinensis subsp. philippinensis (Radlk.) Leenh. Philippines, Indonesia. Leaves with 2-4 (rarely 6) leaflets. History
A
major early Chinese historical reference to lychees was made in the
Tang Dynasty, when it was the favourite fruit of Emperor Li Longji
(Xuanzong)'s favoured concubine Yang Yuhuan (Yang Guifei). The emperor
had the fruit, which was only grown in southern China, delivered by the
imperial messenger service's fast horses, whose riders would take shifts
day and night in a Pony Express-like manner, to the capital. (Most
historians believe the fruits were delivered from modern Guangdong, but
some believe they came from modern Sichuan.)
In the Chinese
classical work, Shanglin Fu, it is related that the alternate name,
pinyin: lízhī, meaning leaving its branches, is so-called because once
the fruit is picked it deteriorates quickly.
The lychee was first
described in the West by Pierre Sonnerat (1748-1814) on a return from
his travel to Chine and Southeast Asia.
It was then introduced to
the Réunion Island in 1764 by Joseph-François Charpentier de Cossigny
de Palma. It was later introduced to Madagascar which has become a major
producer. Cultivation and uses
Lychees are extensively grown
in the native region of China, and also elsewhere in South-East Asia,
especially in north of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Bangladesh,
Pakistan, India, southern Japan, and more recently in Brazil and
California, Hawaii, and Florida in the United States, the wetter areas
of eastern Australia and sub-tropical regions of South Africa, also in
the state of Sinaloa in Mexico.
They require a warm subtropical
to tropical climate that is cool but also frost-free or with only very
slight winter frosts not below -4°C, and with high summer heat,
rainfall, and humidity. Growth is best on well-drained, slightly acidic
soils rich in organic matter. A wide range of cultivars is available,
with early and late maturing forms suited to warmer and cooler climates
respectively. They are also grown as an ornamental tree as well as for
their fruit.
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Lychees are commonly sold fresh in Vietnamese,
Chinese and Asian markets, and in recent years, also widely in
supermarkets worldwide. The red rind turns dark brown when the fruit is
refrigerated, but the taste is not affected. It is also sold canned
year-round. The fruit can be dried with the rind intact, at which point
the flesh shrinks and darkens. Cultivars There are many different cultivars of lychee (lizhi), of which three are considered to be the most sought-after.
The "Three Prestigious Cultivars"
Hanging
Green (Chinese: gualü): The most famous (and most rare) lychee in
existence. It received its name because of the barely noticeable light
green hue and green line on the shell. Ancient records have described
Hanging Green as "Fresh and crispy as pear, without juice. It can last
for three days after the shell is removed". For centuries, Hanging
Green is an item of tribute to the imperial government of various
dynasties, until people in Canton revolted during the Qianlong era
against the tributes and chopped all but one of the Hanging Green trees.
The sole remaining tree still produces fruit each year, and fruits from
that tree are now called "Zhengcheng Hanging Green" (Zengcheng gualü).
Sweet
Osmanthus Flavour (gua mei, 桂味): Named because of the Sweet Osmanthus
flavour it contains, this lychee has light red shells, which contains
sharp edges. The fruits are described as crispy and sweet. There is a
related cultivar, called "Yatou Green" (yatoulü).
The shell of this cultivar has dark green spots.
Glutinous
Rice Ball (nuomici): Named after its thick fruit meats and sweet (some
described the taste as close to honey) flavours. The fresh red shells
are not sharp and hard, and the seeds from this cultivar are noticeably
smaller than others. Some fruits from this cultivar are seedless. Other Notable Cultivars
* Estevam Costa Marques, Lichias.com Foudator and Angie Swinerd, Lichias.com England Correspondent - Dic.2011
Baila
Baitangying
Black Leaves: This cultivar matures less than others, and has big meats and seeds. The shell exhibits a dark red tint.
Huaizhi:
Literally "Branches [of fruit] in the arms of [a person]", this lychee
supposedly received its name when a government official toured Lingnan
(modern day Canton) and placed within his arms lychee branches gifted by
local villagers.
March Red (sanyuehong): This lychee matures the earliest, and are usually available annually around May.
The
Concubine Smiles (feizixiao): Famed as the cultivar of lychee Emperor
Xuanzong of Tang brought from the edges of the Tang empire to cheer up
Yang Guifei, this lychee matures earlier than others, and has a very
light red tint on its shells.
The Jade Purse (yuhebao): Named because of its large fruits and the thick meat within. The seed is small in this cultivar. Nutrition
The
following data was compiled by the USDA, and pertains to the nutrition
information of significance per 100 grams of lychee fruit:
Litchis, raw. USDA (2006). Retrieved on 2006-12-30. Lychee in space
The
first lychee in space was launched aboard the Bigelow Aerospace
spacecraft Genesis II on June 28, 2007 as part of the private aerospace
firm's "Fly Your Stuff" program [1]. Guy Pignolet de Pluton, a professor
at Université de la Réunion in Sainte-Rose, Réunion, provided the
lychee which has been imaged on Bigelow Aerospace's website.
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