Luffa - Egyptian Loofah - Luffa Cylindrica - Sponge Plant - 5 Seeds Sweetcorn

Luffa - Egyptian Loofah - Luffa Cylindrica - Sponge Plant - 5 Seeds SweetcornThe 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

flowering rather quickly in some cases

The leaves of Dietes bicolor are narrower than those of Dietes grandiflora and Dietes iridioides

Width : (46 - 56cm)

the plant is now considered 'endangered' in its natural habitat

They are a crack resistant variety

and it's certain to garner compliments all season long

Seeds need cold treatment

56 from southern & eastern Africa and 60 species in Madagascar

Long spikes of rose-pink flowers in late spring to early summer

with pachycaul stems and a stout

Lanariaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants

This variety has a mild flavour and meaty flesh with relatively few seeds