Nature Production / Sponge Gourd / Loufa plant (Luffa aegyptiaca) tendril curling, at the point of reversion,

Nature Production / Sponge Gourd / Loofah staminate flower {Luffa aegyptiaca} Japan

Nature Production / Luffa plant / Sponge Gourd {Luffa aegyptiaca} bearing fruit, Japan

Nature Production / Sponge Gourd {Luffa aegyptiaca} fruits and flowers - dried and sold as loofah, Japan

Adrian Davies / Cross section through a dried Loofah (Luffa aegyptiaca) used as bath sponge, UK