They can be used as household scrubbers, body exfoliators, and young luffas are even edible and delicious when added to simple dishes and stir-fry recipes.
Luffa seeds are emetic and purgative, and the leaves are used by the Chinese in a treatment for skin diseases.
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In Mozambique it is known only in cultivation, seldom becoming naturalized Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 2016.
Today they are best known as scrubbers and a food source and grown and used all over the world.
The seeds should take about 7 days to germinate and are ready to plant outdoors when each plant has at least 2 pairs of leaves.