Lychee is a unique tropical fruit tree with distinctive fruits that appear like strawberries covered with rough, dimpled skin ...

Last week, we traveled vicariously to visit mostly the tropical fruits of the New World. This week, let us imagine that we are in the jungles of Southeast Asia, home of monkeys and humans who have ...

Ask a member of the Brevard Tropical Fruit Club why they plant fruit trees, and they will wax poetic about the experience. “Planting a fruit tree isn’t just about adding to your garden, it’s about ...

Home-growing video of the Eastern's Lychee plant from seed in 76 days. The seed was extracted from an oriental grocery's ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Are you tired of winter already? Why not grow fruit? Last year I decided to ...

For many years, a good portion of metro-Houston yards have been planted with citrus, figs, pomegranates, persimmons, pears and a few other types of fruit trees. The quest for growing tropical fruit ...

Woody vines, known as lianas, compete intensely with trees and their numbers are on the rise in many tropical forests around the world. A new study at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI ...

"The seeds of most lianas in the tropical forests of the Americas are spread by the wind, whereas most trees seeds and fruit are spread by animals -- therefore, lianas reduce tree fruit production but ...