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Luffa acutangula Luffa acutangula Luffa acutangula is commercially grown for its unripe fruits as a vegetable. Mature fruits are used as natural cleaning sponges. Its fruit slightly resembles a cucumber or zucchini with ridges. It ranges from central and eastern Asia to southeastern Asia. It is also grown as a houseplant in places with colder climates. English common names include angled luffa, Chinese okra, dish cloth gourd, ridged gourd, sponge gourd, vegetable gourd, strainer vine, ribbed loofah, silky gourd, ridged gourd, silk gourd, and sinkwa towelsponge. The young fruit of some cultivars are used as cooked vegetables or pickled or eaten raw,
Luffa fruit is fully ripened, it is very fibrous. Various dishes of gilki are prepared in India and eaten. The fully developed fruit is the source of the loofah scrubbing sponge which is used in bathrooms and kitchens. "Luffa" are not frost-hardy, and require 150 to 200 warm days to mature. The name "luffa" was taken by European botanists in the 17th century from the Egyptian Arabic name "lūf". The fruit section of "L. aegyptiaca" may be allowed to mature and used as a bath or kitchen sponge after being processed to remove everything but the network of xylem fibers. If