Details for: PI 277462, Litchi chinensis Sonn., BREWSTER

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Litchi chinensis Sonn.

Top Name:

BREWSTER

Origin:

Donated – Florida, United States

Maintained:

Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami

Received by NPGS:

1959

PI Assigned:

1961

Inventory Volume:

169
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Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Budwood	5 count		MIA 17454 PL

Restrictions
Plant material may be subject to additional regulations
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USA – Texas (See state regulation: Caribbean Fruit Fly; except commercial fruit)

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Litchi chinensis Sonn.

Top Name:

BREWSTER

Origin:

Donated – Florida, United States

Maintained:

Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami

Received by NPGS:

1959

PI Assigned:

1961

Source History

Donated

1959.
Florida, United States

Donor(s):

USDA, ARS

Accession Names and Identifiers

BREWSTER

Type: Unverified name

P.I.S. 17454

Type: Other or unclassified name

MIA 17454

Type: Inventory

Narrative

FIRST LYCHEE CULTIVAR INTRODUCED TO U.S. FROM HENGHUA, FUJIEN PROVINCE, CHINA, IN 1903 (P.I. 10679) THROUGH EFFORTS OF REV. W. N. BREWSTER, METHODIST MISSIONARY, FOR WHOM IT IS NAMED IN THIS COUNTRY. ONE NAME FOR IT IN CHINA IS 'CHEN FAMILY PURPLE'. FRUIT ELONGATE, BRIGHT RED, WITH GOOD BALANCE OF SUGAR AND ACID, JUICY, OF SUPERIOR QUALITY. Plants received June 1959, from the Newcomb Nursery, Homestead.

Litchi chinensis Sonn.

Genus:

Litchi

Family:

Sapindaceae

Subfamily:

Sapindoideae

Nomen number:

22399

Place of publication:

Voy. Indes orient. 2:230[quarto], 3:255[octavo], t. 129. 1782

Verified:

11/01/1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Litchi chinensis Sonn. subsp. chinensis (0 active accession[s])
Litchi chinensis Sonn. subsp. philippinensis (Radlk.) Leenh. (1 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Nephelium litchi Cambess.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	leechee	1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English	litchi	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	lychee	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French	cerisier de Chine	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	litchi de Chine	2	Tindall, H. D. 1994. Sapindaceous fruits: botany and horticulture. Hort. Rev. 16:144, 145, 147, 151, 153, 161.
German	Litchi	2	Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. German common names
German	Litchibaum	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Litchipflanze	2	Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. German common names
Italian	lici	2	Tindall, H. D. 1994. Sapindaceous fruits: botany and horticulture. Hort. Rev. 16:144, 145, 147, 151, 153, 161.
Portuguese	litchia	2	Tindall, H. D. 1994. Sapindaceous fruits: botany and horticulture. Hort. Rev. 16:144, 145, 147, 151, 153, 161.
Portuguese (Brazil)	lichia	2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Swedish	litchi	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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