Luffa aegyptiaca Images

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Ripening fruit
Photograph by: Tomas Nevado

Young fruits
Photograph by: Unknown
Image credit to Australian National Botanic Gardens

Male flower
Photograph by: Ton Rulkens

Seeds, with a loofah in the background
Photograph by: Abrahami

Seeds and dried fruit. Some of the skin has been removed to reveal the loofah inside
Photograph by: Roger Culos

Fruits drying along the roadside in Monterrico, Guatemala, where production of the sponges is an important local industry.
Photograph by: marinakvillatoro (Marina Kuperman Villatoro)

close up, flowers, fruit, leaves, best of name
Photograph by: Wrigley, J.
Image credit to Australian National Botanic Gardens

close up, flowers, fruit
Photograph by: Unknown
Image credit to Australian National Botanic Gardens