By Sri Owen
Published 1994
Luffa acutangula or L. cylindrica; also called oyong, or in English the bottle gourd. The botanical difference between these plants is not very important, as the fruit have to be eaten young, before their internal structure hardens. (L. cylindrica, when late-middle-aged, provides the bath loofah.)
© 1994 Sri Owen. All rights reserved.
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