Talk:Lychee/Archive 1

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Page Name
The first paragraph claims that 'litchi' is the usual English spelling, and does not mention 'lychee' at all, but then uses lychee through the rest of the article. If 'litchi' is indeed the usual English spelling, shouldn't that be used in the title and throughout the article as well (WP:UCN)? Otherwise, the opening paragraph should be changed to use 'lychee' and mention litchi as an alternate spelling; the current arrangement is confusing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.214.146.193 (talk) 12:38, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Mandarin it is "li-zhi" with retroflex
In Mandarin, Lychee has no "ch" sound actually. Its pinyin is lizhi, which I guess if we were to try to use English type rules for letters, it'd be "Lee Zzzz" but with the tongue to the roof of the mouth during the 'zzz'... Nice article though. I love lychee. I did not know there were so many different kinds!64.17.68.14 (talk) 06:32, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

===I put li zhi in the main section and someone came by and undid it because 'it was adequate as it was'. First of all one of the reasons I don't contribute more these days is this attitude of 'owning an article' and nonchalantly revising other's contributions. Note this isn't addressed to you but to all.

My wife is Chinese and I spend time there most years. Li Zhi is pretty much the common name of the plant and as such should be included in any pin yin for it.

If you think something is unwarranted or needs revision then TALK about it on this page first. Someone may have as much or more insight and/or knowledge at the very least on one particular aspect of the topic. It's rude to just arrogantly dismiss other's contributions and make unilateral decisions without giving any and all the contributors to a topic a chance to discuss it.

Unless someone can explain why the most common Chinese name for this plant shouldn't be included then leave the revision alone. Or come and discuss how you feel. Jobberone (talk) 08:45, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Is Lychee The Same As Madi Phalam ?
Tried a search on madi phalam and did not find much information on google. Is Madi phalam (Indian fruit name) the same as lychee ? Madi Phala Rasayanam is a popular ayurvedic medicine. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.93.105.131 (talk) 05:29, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Human Earlobe Texture
Surely we can think up a more appetizing descriptive phrase for the dried Lychee fruit than "somewhat resembling a human earlobe in texture"?????? I'll leave it to wiser minds than mine to figure that out.
 * Yeah. Ew. --StarChaser Tyger 10:10, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Earlobe texture = cooked mushroom. However, the texture of a lychee is more akin to a grape or cherry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.70.113 (talk) 20:52, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

How to prodused
it is Lychee or slove you aid more like lychee?

The Cantonese pronunciation is closer to "Lye-chee" (better, "Lye-jee") while the Mandarin pronuncitation is closer to "Lit-chee" (or more accurately, "Lee-jee"). I'm not sure about the English transliterations; try a dictionary. 131.107.0.81 23:24, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * No, in Mandarin it's like "li-zhi". (li-tzi in older times.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.126.75.181 (talk) 04:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Rind-eating
Doesn't say if you are meant to eat the skin or not. Edward 21:48, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * Does now (you don't) - sannse (talk) 06:53, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * You don't need the article to tell you. Take a bite and you know. The rinds taste terrible. Kowloonese 22:50, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, we should state the obvious for those who will never get the chance to eat this tropical food. --Menchi 00:13, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Synonym
is another name 'lychnis' and than polish 'firletka'?


 * Definitely not the same as Lychnis. I dunno about firletka. --Menchi 00:13, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * It seems that:
 * (Polish) firletka == (?) lychnis != (Latin) litchi == (English) lychee == (Polish) liczi
 * &mdash;6birc 20:48, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Lychee is Lynchee in Thai so maybe that is where you're getting lychnis?

Is lychee a Cantonese cuisine?
Although non-Cantonese people also eat it, in my opinion it is a Cantonese cuisine. &mdash; Instantnood 19:42, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * You realise, of course, how preposterous that opinion sounds? Are peanuts, then, food of the Americas only even if found in &#22235;&#24029; dishes?  How about potatoes?  Are any potato-based dishes American as well?


 * Individual dishes can be called "Cantonese" (or whatever), but ingredients? That's just plain foolish. --MTR (&#20005;&#21152;&#21326;)


 * There is a freaking common desert served in Singapore which mixes Lychees with Pineapple. Is this cantonese cuisine? Both lychees and longans are very common in Singapore's supermarket shelves, and as part of various dishes. Is this due to cantonese influence? I have my serious doubts. Anyhow, the above two responses says it all. I might be tempted to classify Tea as Chinese cuisine, and Rice as Asian cuisine, but is that practical?--Huaiwei 07:48, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Someone should trace where the fruit originated from. The English names Lychee and Longan are based on the Cantonese names of the fruits, but the names do not prove the origin.  Use Kiwi fruit as an example, it is originally a Chinese fruit, but nowadays, even its English name is tied to New Zealand.  So is it Chinese or New Zealander?  Another example is the board game Go, the game originated from China, but its English name comes from Japanese, and it is played around the world.  How do you classify it?   Is it an international game?  Is it origin worth mentioning at all?  Kowloonese 21:31, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Availability in the US
I haven't seen too many fresh Lychee sold in the supermarkets here in the US. The local asian supermarket sometimes has a limited selection of old looking ones. It is my favorite fruit and I don't understand why people wouldn't distribute it. It is much tastier than other fruits which have gotten mass distribution in America. My Chinese teacher said it was due to the US import/export policy. However, then there wouldn't be any fresh Lychee here. Just wondering if anyone knew anything more on the subject.


 * It has a short season, only in the summer. The trees can't survive cold climate. These all add up to limited production.  You have better chance to find them in Chinese supermarket in July and August.  The rind turned dark brown when the fruit has been refrigerated in transport. Usually the taste is not affected despite the dark rind.  Kowloonese 22:19, 1 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Go to Trader Joe's, if you have one. They carry them. --  ßott  e   siηi  (talk) 21:06, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Lol, I just got some there today! I've been wanting to try them, but didn't have money last time I saw them at the store. I've also seen them in Raleys. They are really tasty. I didn't know not to eat the seed at first though (the package said to peel and then eat, nothing about taking out the seed). It was really bitter and I spit it out, which is good since this page says they're slightly poisonous. The Ungovernable Force 04:48, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Selecting a Fruit?
I can't find any guidance on the web about how to pick a good one -- the local asian market gets crazy business, so they have giant piles of all their fresh fruit, including lychees. Some are pale, some are darker red... obviously, you don't want the cracked ones. Is there any other guidance on which will be sweet vs. which will be slightly bitter? Mine always seem to have a faint taste of bitter under the main lychee flavor. It tastes like the rind, even though they've been peeled. Should they be rinsed after peeling, or something?

litchis are roughly as nourishing as longans
I took out the sentence about longans being more "nourishing" -- litchis are roughly as nourishing as longans. See http://www.timothyhowe.com/cgi-bin/compfoods.pl and compare litchi with longan.

fruit classification
The fruit can definitely not be classified as a drupe, as was previously the case on this page. It should rather be referred to as a berry or even arillate berry, if one wants to be more descriptive.

the cantonese saying
is it just cantonese or is it chinese?


 * The saying is Chinese in the sense that Cantonese is only a spoken dialect (in formal writing, at least), so the saying is spelt out in Chinese words and people who understand Chinese will understand the saying. On the other hand, the saying is Cantonese in the sense that the `corruption' of Su Shi's poetry verse was done in Cantonese: The pairs of words in the two verses sound extremely similar in Cantonese, but not necessarily in other Chinese dialects (eg, Mandarin).  69.235.145.252 08:44, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

hanging green
so, when the hanging green tree dies, no more hanging green lychees? 24.206.74.247 02:26, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

leaking template?
for some reason, this article is categorized in Category:Multilingual support templates. dab (𒁳) 10:27, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * OK: I found and fixwd the culprit — . — Gareth Hughes 13:23, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

pronounciation?
I'm surprised that the IPA notation indicates that "lychee" is pronounced with a long "E" vowel sound in the first syllable, i.e. "lee-chee". By its spelling, "lychee", I expected the vowel in the first syllable to sound like a long "I", i.e. "lye-chee".

During the time I spent in Malaysia and Singapore, I heard everybody pronounce it as "lye-chee", which matches the Malay spelling in the article. I can't remember anybody there pronouncing it the other way. Even in the USA, I hear more people pronounce it as "lye-chee". It seems as though if this is not the "correct" pronunciation of the word, it is at least a very popular alternative. Should this be added to the article? --Lance E Sloan (talk) 19:42, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

The pronunciation comes from the Cantonese. The first syllable is pronounced 'lie'; the vowels in lychee are the same as those in 'pipe dream'.113.73.15.157 (talk) 11:11, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

In hokkien, this fruit is pronounced as nai-ji (in hanyu pinyin), which is quite close to lye-chee. 無聲 (talk) 04:15, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

Lychee taste's
I've tasted lychee FOR REAL and the flesh is soft and sweet. Sometimes it may be a bit sour but it tastes good. There is a giant, black pit in the middle which is too big to swallow. The outside of a Lychee is a bit rough and very bumpy. It may be a bit hard to open, on some occasions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.233.25.185 (talk) 20:42, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Infobox image
The current infobox photo is very dark and a bit blurry. There are two photos that I think would serve the article better. Does anyone have an opinion on this? These are about the size they would appear in the infobox. First Light (talk) 02:34, 1 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I've changed the infobox photo to the third one shown above. First Light (talk) 17:17, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

In Chinese nutrition folklore, lizhi is considered a "hot" fruit?
I was visiting Shanghai last summer and often bought and ate lizhis. Many Shanghainese said to me I shouldn't be eating them when it's hot because the fruit itself is classified as "hot" in some old Chinese medicine way or something. I then asked many people about this and they confirmed this. On Chinese Wikipedia page on "Medicinal use", its parts are classified as 温 or "warm". Anyone with more accurate info on this? --Sigmundur (talk) 11:10, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Old Chinese adage say that one Lychee fruit equals to "three torches", the "torch" being a literary interpretation of the "heat" it generates in one's body. IIRC, there have been cases where people have coughed up blood after eating too much Lychee (in the order of bushels). It's worth putting it in, I think. I'll be bold here...

In Vietnam, the most popular cultivars are: Longhnan, Tieuhue, and Xuongcomvang?
They are misspelt and they are cultivars of longans, not lychee. The most popular cultivars of lychee is vải thiều of Hải Dương. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.16.122.85 (talk) 14:27, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Nutritional Facts
I don't feel capable of editing it myself, but the last part of "nutritional facts" is both a bit irrelevant and written with a pretty bad English. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.166.110.206 (talk) 20:49, 18 December 2010 (UTC) I have edited a "better English version" in the nutrition section. Especially I'm a specialist in nutraceuticals and I have deep knowledge in this field of functional foods and nutraceuticals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Horoporo (talk • contribs) 05:59, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

I have edited the nutrition information to delineate nutrients from phytochemicals such as oligonol. There is only preliminary lab research done to date on oligonol so it is mainly WP:PRIMARY and does not satisfy WP:MEDRS. User Horoporo has included website which is WP:SPAM.--Zefr (talk) 06:35, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Two 'Cultivars' sections?
I was just passing by and I noticed there are two 'Cultivars' sections. An error maybe?

Cultivars
Under this section, it states that "Florida production is based on the Hawaii cultivar Kohala..." These are Longan, not Litchi cultivars. This is a glaring mistake and throws the entire section into doubt. I would suggest a complete rewrite with current citations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.139.49.98 (talk) 00:30, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Use In Tea
While enjoying some nice lychee black tea, I decided to read about it on wikipedia, but found nothing! When searching, I found lots of stores selling lychee black tea, many saying that it is flavored with real lychee. I assume that this plant is the same lychee that is used to flavor it, but was surprised to find its omission here. If I am wrong, will someone point me to the real lychee used in lychee black tea? I'm going to wait a bit, then check back for someone to have corrected me. Lychee black tea is too popular for it not to already be mentioned on Wikipedia. If it is truly not on here, then I will try to find a good source for it. An online tea store wouldn't be a good enough source would it? Rhollis7 (talk) 23:34, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

"Lee-chee" aka Lychee Nut aka Litchi Nut
A small piece of added information. Lychee is also called "Lychee Nut" whether fresh or canned. The AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY refers to the the fruit as "litchi nut". Speaking for myself, I've most frequently heard it called lychee nut, whether in San Francisco, or in New England. I also offer this website as a reference (and there are many others) to help you understand that it is a common way to say it. Produce Oasis. I'm not sure where it would fit in smoothly in the article as a whole, so I did not edit the main page. But this common usage should be mentioned.

Finally, I would like to add two pronunciation notes. First, that Thai people universally pronounce it "lin-chee"; and, second, in America I've heard mostly lee-chee and, infrequently, lye-chee (indeed, the American Heritage Dictionary prefers lee-chee). — Preceding unsigned comment added by N0w8st8s (talk • contribs) 12:27, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Lychee or Longan photo?
Is the photo at the bottom of the page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Litchi_chinensis_Luc_Viatour.jpg) lychees or longan? They look a lot more like longans than the lychees in the photo at the top of the page. -- Ralph (talk) 00:17, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Due to the bumpy and slightly reddish peel color of the one on the right, I would guess they are a lychee cultivar. In my limited experience of seeing them at Vancouver Chinese markets, longans are more uniformly yellow with a smoother peel, like these. Click on the pictures for magnified views. Both species have been grown in Australia for more than half a century, with this description of their differences. --Zefr (talk) 01:29, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Methods on growing the fruit
Something I did not see is the climates that lychees grow the best in. ALl the article discusses is how well grow according the the climate they are in, but that is a very vague response to it. The best climates for lychee production have a dry, cold (but nonfreezing) winter period lasting 3 to 5 months; a warm spring during the flowering period; a hot and humid summer during fruit growth, development, and maturation; and moderately warm temperatures during the fall. Periodic rainfall during spring and summer is ideal. Tall kidd (talk) 17:27, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Lychee in Pennsylvania
There must be hardier varieties of lychee for them to grow in hardiness zone 6b, as I have seen in Dauphin and Lehigh Counties, Pennsylvania. On the East Coast of the United States lychee is grown as an ornamental tree and few dare to try the fruit. Heff01 (talk) 05:35, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Lychee undo revision 23:48, 2 February 2017‎
what was the reasoning behind removing my contribution to the article? If you read the New York Times article that you cited it shows that the lychee poisoning has the exact same pathophysiology as the Jamaican vomiting sickness.

I quote from the New York Times: "It was in the fall of 2013, during a conference call with colleagues in Atlanta, that someone mentioned 'Jamaican vomiting sickness,' an outbreak in the West Indies that for many decades caused brain swelling, convulsions and altered mental states in children." If you read the NYT article it also mentions the toxins hypoglycin and methylenecyclopropyl glycine (MCPG). Following guidelines from Identifying reliable sources (medicine) this is preferred since primary sources are discouraged.

I think it is important because the lychee poisoning was not recognized until somebody made a connection to Jamaican vomiting sickness. Hombre de Vitruvio (talk) 00:18, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
 * The only reference provided in the paragraph you edited was by the CDC which did not mention the Jamaican disease. If the cite to the NYT had been given, I would not have reverted it. I'll reinstate and place the ref there. Thanks. --Zefr (talk) 01:26, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Olé, Hombre de Vitruvio, muchas gracias! you are spot on ! Following slavishly  WP:red tape can cause facts to get lost. I too have fought (as MD Phd MPH, haha) people removing primary sources that were accessible, not behind paywalls, well written and replacing them with sources behind paywalls in ivory-tower language.


 * It is also ironic that it took so long for the truth to come out, since the metabolic consequences of methylenecyclopropylglycine poisoning in rats had BEEN KNOWN since at least 1991. I wrote Methylene cyclopropyl acetic acid after the CDC published their jan 2015 report ... :-) --Wuerzele (talk) 18:15, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Possible removal from list
An entry in List of colors: G–M contained a link to this page.

The entry is :


 * Lychee

I don't see any evidence that this color is discussed in this article and plan to delete it from the list per this discussion: Talk:List_of_colors

If someone decides that this color should have a section in this article and it is added, I would appreciate a ping.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  15:59, 24 August 2018 (UTC)