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BEIJING, July 1: A Chinese textile company recently paid 555,000 yuan (68,000 dollars) for a single lychee at an auction in the southern Guangdong province, local media said on Monday.
The lychee was plucked from a 400-year-old tree that bore fruit used for the courts of emperors Qianlong and Jiaqing in the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), the Beijing Morning Post said.
The newspaper did not say what the buyer, a Chinese manufacturer of material for jeans, planned to do with the 8-gram fruit.—dpa
