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  • COMMON NAME: Dishrag gourd, Vietnamese gourd.
  • ARABIC: ليفة
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Luffa cylindrica (L.) Roem.
  • SYNONYMS: Cucumis melo
  • FAMILY: CUCURBITACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah
  • CATEGORIES: Fruits (F) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt)
  • TYPES: Annual
Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:293075-1 https://www.floraofqatar.com/luffa_cylindrica.htm V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Moderately salt tolerant. Domesticated in some parts in the world. Fruits are edible. industrial plant.
Annual herb, extensive climber. Leaves simple, ovate-cordate in outline, up to 20cm across, deeply palmately 5-lobed, scabrous. Petiole stout, 8-12cm long. Tendrils 4-fid. Flowers monoecious, yellow. Male racemes 10-20 flowered. Female flowers solitary, axillary. Calyx tube campanulate, 5-lobed. Petals 5, free, spreading, 2-4cm long. Stamens 3 or 5. Fruit cylindrical, terete, varying in length and diameter, spongy within when ripe. Seeds many, ovate, black. Flowers in spring.
Cultivated, sometimes wild, grows well in different dry and salty conditions.
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