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Nursery Direct
Longan
Dimocarpus longan
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
Supplied in 45Ltypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Longan - Dimocarpus longan
Longan is the lychee's close relative and the easier of the two to grow across a wider slice of Australia, cropping well in the dry tropics and warm subtropics. Dimocarpus longan makes a handsome dense evergreen with dark, leathery pinnate leaves and a rounded canopy that reads as a genuine shade tree, not just an orchard plant. The fruit hangs in heavy panicles in late summer, thin brown skin over translucent flesh with a musky sweetness quite unlike lychee.
Why Longan
Dense canopy: Thick dark foliage forms a rounded crown that provides real shade as well as fruit.
Heavy bunches: Fruit is carried in large hanging panicles, so a mature tree can yield substantially in a good season.
Wider climate range: It fruits in drier and slightly cooler subtropical conditions than lychee will accept.
Long lived: A well sited tree remains productive for decades and becomes a permanent structural element.
Wind firm: The strong branch structure holds up better in summer storms than many soft wooded tropical fruit trees.
Ideal Applications
Home orchard tree: Kept pruned to picking height, one tree supplies a household through late summer.
Subtropical shade: Its dense crown cools a yard in Brisbane, the Northern Rivers and coastal Queensland.
Mixed fruit planting: It combines well with mango, avocado and citrus in a warm climate food garden.
Rural windbreak row: Planted along a boundary it shelters more tender crops while producing fruit itself.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 4 to 5m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 7 to 9m
Best Planting Season: Spring into early summer once soil has warmed
Soil & Drainage: Deep, free draining sandy loam is ideal, slightly acidic. It is intolerant of waterlogging, so mound the planting site on heavier ground.
Establishment Care: Water two to three times a week for the first two years, then reduce and allow a drier, cooler period in late autumn and winter, which is what triggers flowering. Mulch widely but clear of the trunk, shelter young trees from strong wind, and prune after harvest to keep the canopy open and the fruit within reach.
Plant Details
Height: 8 to 12m unpruned, commonly held at 4 to 5m in home gardens
Width: 6 to 8m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun
Native to: Southern China and mainland South East Asia
Flower Colour: Small cream to pale yellow, in branched sprays
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







