When do Putian lychees generally ripen?
Putian is known as the Lychee City because it abounds with lychees, and within the city there is even a park named "Lychee" that is also a household name. So when do Putian lychees ripen?
Putian lychees ripen and come to market in July.
Putian lychees date back to the Tang Dynasty, and their flavor is sweet and fragrant, with a high rate of small seeds, and they have thirst-quenching and nourishing effects. In the Song Dynasty, Cai Xiang once wrote the world's first "Treatise on Lychees," calling the Xinghua lychee the most extraordinary. Later, the lychee tree was designated as the city tree of Putian. When Guo Moruo visited Putian in the early 1960s, he once inscribed the poetic line “Lychees are everywhere in the Lychee City,” greatly praising Putian lychees.