litchi in luofushan is a specialty of Boluo county, Huizhou city, Guangdong province. Luofu Mountain in Boluo, Guangdong Province, is located in the Tropic of Cancer and belongs to the tropical climate zone of South Asia. Zhong Ling in Luofu Mountain is beautiful, with thousands of miles of hills and fertile soil, forming a unique natural ecology of litchi, which is a famous litchi production base in China. The county has an area of 132, mu of litchi with an annual output of 26, tons. Mainly for Guiwei, glutinous rice paste, Feizixiao and Hezhi and other varieties. Boluo is "Top Ten Litchi Industry Counties in China". Luofushan Litchi also won the title of "Famous Fruit of China", which is "Famous Trademark and Famous Product of Huizhou City" and "Famous Trademark of Guangdong Province".
litchi varieties in Luofushan
Guiwei
Guiwei is the dominant variety of litchi in Boluo, accounting for 6% of litchi in the county. Cinnamon litchi, with thick meat and small core, is sweet, soft and juicy, and the fruit color is bright and different. The skin is bright red, with sweet-scented osmanthus-shaped fragrance, mostly small stones. The maturity period is from mid-June to late June.
Princess laughs
Du Mu, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem: "When riding a princess in the world of mortals, no one knew it was litchi." That's how the variety "Feizixiao" got its name. Feizixiao is a selected litchi. Litchi looks big and full, and the color contrast is particularly obvious. It is often red and green on a litchi. Although the overall color is green, it is actually very sweet and the core is very small. The pulp is crisp, tender and juicy, sweet and slightly fragrant, and the maturity period is from late May to early June.
glutinous rice paste
The best of glutinous rice paste litchi. Also known as Mizhi and Crystal Pill in ancient times, it is one of litchi varieties. The fruit shape of this variety is eccentric, with crooked handle, larger fruit shape, bright red and sallow color, inconspicuous prickly skin, milky white, translucent and rich flesh, tender and smooth taste, extremely sweet taste, thin core, high natural sugar content, containing various amino acids, trace elements and vitamins necessary for human body, and having various nourishing functions. It is a rare good fruit in Lingnan. The maturity period is from mid-June to late June.
Hezhi
Hezhi is also called Huaizhi. The fruit is medium-large, loose and smooth, juicy, sweet, and the seeds are large and full. The maturity period is from the middle and late June to the middle of July.
crystal ball
crystal ball has crisp and sweet flesh, transparent flesh color and small stone, which is a superior variety with hundreds of years of cultivation history. Chen Ding's "Lychee Talk" describes that the crystal ball is "white, white-shelled, white, and nucleated, while the pulp is like blood, sweet and fragrant. The mature period is in the middle to late July.
black leaf
The fruit with black leaf is oval or crooked heart-shaped, medium in size, dark red in color, thin in shell, flat and dull in surface with obvious cracks and sutures, and large in stone, which is suitable for canning. The maturity is in mid-June.
Su Dongpo and Luofushan Litchi
Luofushan Litchi is a beautiful fruit in Lingnan, and has the reputation of "king of fruits". Su Shi was banished to Huizhou to stay: "In the spring of Luofu Mountain at four o'clock, Lu Ju Yang Mei was the second newest, and there were 3 lychees a day, so he did not hesitate to be a Lingnan native." The poem.
Boluo county, Guangdong province is now the administrative region.