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NATAL

http://www.NATAL-BRAZIL.com/ ... Natal, the City of the Sun, capital city of the State of Rio Grande do Norte, is a major tourist destination in Brazil. Brazil is a big, peaceful, blessed by Nature country. Read more about Brazil. Natal and other beaches, like Pipa, are growing more and popular among Brazilian and international tourists. Natal is the safest capital city in Brazil, and one of the Brazilian cities nearest Europe and North America. Read more about Natal ...

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LYCHEE ...  ... Litchi chinensis Sonn. (Nephelium litchi Cambess) ... edible fruits of the soapberry family, Sapindaceae ... Madagascar began experimental refrigerated shipments of lychees to France in 1960. It is recorded that there were 2 trees about 6 years old in Natal, South Africa, in 1875. Others were introduced from Mauritius in 1876. Layers from these latter trees were distributed by the Durban Botanical Gardens and lychee-growing expanded steadily until in 1947 there were 5,000 bearing trees on one estate and 5,000 newly planted on another property, a total of 40,000 in all.