Longan or the "eye of the dragon"

Longan, also known as the "dragon's eye" - a small sweet fruit of an evergreen longan tree. These exotic fruits are called the younger brothers of the litchi fruit. The color of the skin of the fruit varies from brown to orange, the flesh inside the fetus is pinkish. The taste of longan sweet with a taste of musk, very similar to lychee. Growing longan bunches on evergreen trees, whose height can reach 20 meters. China is the birthplace of longana, from where it spread all over the world and is now grown in Thailand, India and other countries of Asia. Fruit trees in the summer season, but dried fruit (no less tasty than fresh) are available all year round. Longan fruits contain almost 80% of a person's daily requirement for vitamin C. Also, longan contains in large quantities such useful minerals as: iron, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium.