Edau
Variety of Longan · Dimocarpus longan
Popular Thai commercial cultivar with crisp, sweet flesh and good off-season performance.
Also known as: E-Daw, Edaw, Idor, E-Dor
🇹🇭 Thailand
Taste & characteristics
Taste
crispsweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Traditionelle thailändische Selektion
- Pollination
- dioecious – separate male and female plants
- Fruit weight
- 13 g
Description
Fruit
Large, round fruit with crisp, sweet aril and small-to-medium seed.
Growth
Vigorous tree; responds well to chemical flower induction and is grown at scale for fresh export.
Yield
Very productive; available year-round through off-season forcing, no fixed season.
Notes
After Biew Kiew, one of Thailand's most widely grown export cultivars.
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