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Dimocarpus longan Lour. 龙眼肉 (Longyanrou, Longan)

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Longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour.) is a large evergreen tropical fruit tree in the genus Dimocarpus of Sapindaceae family that originated in northern Burma and northeast and southern China, and now is cultivated and occasionally naturalized in semitropical areas throughout Southeast Asia with more than 400 species.

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  1. College of Food Science and Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, 430023, China

    Yang Yi

  2. Sericultural and Agri-Food Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, 510610, China

    Ming-wei Zhang

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  1. Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, Beijing, China

    Yanze Liu

  2. Inst. of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

    Zhimin Wang

  3. Aquatic and Crop Resource Development, National Research Council of Canada, Halifax, Canada

    Junzeng Zhang

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Yi, Y., Zhang, Mw. (2015). Dimocarpus longan Lour. 龙眼肉 (Longyanrou, Longan). In: Liu, Y., Wang, Z., Zhang, J. (eds) Dietary Chinese Herbs. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99448-1_42

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