ID on bottled fruit

[Richard Wright]

Can somebody who is into growing exotic edible fruits please identify the fruit contained in the bottle illustrated at

tastes almost exactly like the European gooseberry Ribes uva-crispa, but clearly is not.

The fruit is the size of an olive and, as the photo shows, seems to have had a stone removed.

It is a product of China.

[Henriette Kress]

Check out the litchi fruits - litchi and rambutani. Although rambutani has far spinier (hairier? One or the other) skin than that shown on the bottle...

Henriette

[OmManiPadmeOmelet]

Most likely this fruit:

Cheers!

[Dwayne]

It looks like a Longan. The ones i've seen and eaten were white. Very tasty.

Dwayne

[Pat Kiewicz]

Chinese haw is about 1 inch in diameter. Big enough?

(a type of apricot/plum) is probably too big.

If you *do* find out what the fruit is, please post. I hate unsolved mysteries.

[simy1]

There is no mystery Pat. it is clearly lychee.

[Richard Wright]

I don't think you have been reading the thread. If you have, why do you disbelieve the person who translated the Chinese characters on the jar? It is clearly Chinese hawthorn fruit.