Luffa - Egyptian Loofah - Luffa Cylindrica - Sponge Plant - 5 Seeds Bonsai Drainage Mesh often originating quite far down

often originating quite far down on the trunk

red & yellow flowers in Summer-Autumn

Excellent cut flowers

small bluish-green leaves

Luffa - Egyptian Loofah - Luffa Cylindrica - Sponge Plant - 5 Seeds Bonsai Drainage Mesh often originating quite far downThe fruit of these species is cultivated and eaten as a vegetable. The fruit must be harvested at a young stage of development to be edible. The vegetable is popular in China and southeast Asia. When the fruit is fully ripened it is very fibrous. The fully developed fruit is the source of the loofah scrubbing sponge which is used in bathrooms and kitchens as a sponge tool. Luffa are not frost hardy, and require 150 to 200 warm days to mature. In