epa01766061 A Pakistani fruit vendor waits for customers as he sells lychees in Multan Pakistan, on 19 June 2009. The lychee is the most renowned of a group of edible fruit of the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. It is botanically designated Litchi chinensis Sonn. (Nephelium litchi Cambess) and widely known as litchi and regionally as lichi, lichee, laichi, leechee or lychee. EPA/MK CHAUDHRY
