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Loofah is a fibrous, cylinder shaped
vegetable product often used in bathrooms as a kind of rough sponge or gentle
brush. It is the dried interior of the fruit of a plant known to botanist as
Luffa aegypyiaca. Less dignified, though more descriptive names for this
tropical climbing herb are dishcloth ground and vegetable ground.
The luffa belongs to the great ground
family of plants, and its 800 relations include the cucumber, the melon and the
pumpkin. Inspite of an unpleasant smell, the luffa is cultivated in Egypt and
in Arabia,India and China. The yellow
flowered climbers can sometimes be seen adorning the trunks of palm trees.
Besides being used to make loofahs, the luffas fruit is eaten in curry.
The development ofman made materials has
led to a decline in the loofah’s popularity but many people still use it
slightly abrasive qualities to stimulate the skin.
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