Flowering

Litchi and Longan: Botany, Production, and Uses

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 87-114

  Davenport, Tom L ^a   Stern, Raphael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MIGAL GALILEE TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Israel)

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