According to Egyptian loofah wholesale, Luffa Aegyptiaca is back to the cucumber family, it’s a sort of tropical and subtropical.
Luffa’s fruit is planted and consumed as a vegetable; it’s common in China and Vietnam. To be edible, it must be harvested at a stage of young development.
The Luffah fruit becomes fibrous after it ripens well so that the loofah sponge used in kitchens and bathrooms is a fully developed fruit.
The Egyptian Luffa needs between 150 to 200 warm days to ripen, The name luffa which is used in Europe is originally backs to the Egyptian Arabian name (لوف lūf).
The loofah’s flesh disappears when it is fully ripened and dried out on the vine, then leaving the skeleton and seeds fibrous, which can be simply shaken out, Loofah’s sponge is used as a scrub of the body.