Luffa - Egyptian Loofah - Luffa Cylindrica - Sponge Plant - 5 Seeds Bonsai Drainage Mesh Excellent cut flowers

Excellent cut flowers

The flowers

with 8 separate front panels that simply clip into place

The flowers are produced on penicles which resemble to a foxglove flower in early spring

often originating quite far down on the trunk

Luffa - Egyptian Loofah - Luffa Cylindrica - Sponge Plant - 5 Seeds Bonsai Drainage Mesh Excellent cut flowersThe 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