Dimocarpus Longan

LonganJust been to the free Wikipedia and realised that Longan is also called dimocarpus longan.

Whatever, I have no intention to call it dimocarpus anyway. As the rule of naming our kittens, I will call my longan tree the "longany". Does it sound ok?

To my surprise, after my Sabah Trip, I noticed some tiny spherical bits (with diameter ~ 1 mm), thought to be the flowers of longan, appear on my longany.

They look almost like the new leaves with almost the same colour except that they are lighter. So far only three branches produce them.

I am quite sure that these tiny bits are longan flowers because my longan is the last one to produce fruit this round. A big longan tree two housing rows behind my house had fruits weeks ago. The two longan trees along the last row of the house in the "taman", where the playground is located, are fruiting with the size of the fruits is around 5 - 10 mm in diameter.

My son is excited about both mangoey and longany. He is full of expectation and imagination of the flavour the fruits will bring. How excited!