Alupag

Description

Commonly known as lychee. Alupag/dimocarpus didyma is a fruit tree found throughout southeast asia. It is endemic in the philippines but has now reached neighboring countries as well. Compared to longan, it has bumpier skin. The fruit is appreciated in its native range but generally put aside for its better-known and highly selected relatives, the lychee and longan. Alupag fruits are mostly consumed fresh and have an excellent taste. It is whitish and semi-transparent in the flesh, wrapped around a large black seed. It tastes delicious and juicy. The appearance is warty, with rough peel, brownish and globular.

Botanical name: Dimocarpus didyma