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Luffa acutangula

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Luffa is indigenous to the old world tropic, probably India, now naturalized throughout South and south-east Asia and cultivated elsewhere in the tropics and subtropics.

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Lim, T.K. (2012). Luffa acutangula. In: Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1764-0_45

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