- Scientific name
- Luffa acutangula
- Common name
- Luffa
- Kingdom / family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Genus
- Luffa
- Category
- plantae
- Primary role
- crop
- Crop type
- vegetable
- Edible
- yes
- Temperature
- 20 to 32 °C
- pH
- 5.5 to 7
- Precipitation
- 1200 to 2000 mm
- Soil texture
- 6
- Light
- 5/10
- Native regions
- ["Assam","Bangladesh","East Himalaya","India","Pakistan","Sri Lanka","West Himalaya","Burkina Faso [I]; Benin [I]; Bioko Isl. [Fernando Poo] [I]; S-Chad [I]; Mozambique [I]; Mauritius [I]; La Réunion [I]; Seychelles [I]; Agalega Isl. [c]; Turkmenistan [I]; Kazakhstan [I]; Uzbekistan [I]; Tajikistan [I]; Azerbaijan [I]; China [I]; Japan [I]; Taiwan [I]; Pakistan (Salt Range, Lahore); India (Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal); Maldives [I]; Lakshadweep Isl. [Laccadives]; Sri Lanka; Bangladesh; Andaman Isl.; Nicobar Isl.; Myanmar; Thailand; Laos; Cambodia; Vietnam; Philippines [I]; Java; New Guinea [I]; Society Isl. [I] (Tahiti [I]); Palau [I]; Guam [I]; USA [I] (Louisiana [I], Virginia [I]); Cuba [I]; Jamaica [I]; Haiti [I]; Puerto Rico [I]; Antigua [I]; Guadeloupe [I]; Dominica [I]; Martinique [I]; St. Vincent [I]; Trinidad & Tobago [I]; Venezuela [I]; Peru [I]","Caribbean","North America","Southern Asia","conterminous 48 United States"]
- Invasive regions
- ["Benin","Burkina","Caroline Is.","Chad","Chagos Archipelago","China South-Central","China Southeast","Cuba","DR Congo","Dominican Republic","Gulf States","Gulf of Guinea Is.","Haiti","Jamaica","Kazakhstan","Laos","Leeward Is.","Louisiana","Maldives","Marianas","Mauritania","Mauritius","Mexico Southwest","Mozambique","Oman","Puerto Rico","Réunion","Senegal","Tadzhikistan","Thailand","Transcaucasus","Trinidad-Tobago","Turkmenistan","Uzbekistan","Vietnam","Virginia","Windward Is.","Yemen","BF","CU","Diego Garcia, Main","IO","IQ","MG","Majuro Atoll","MH","PW","SC","SL","TD","TW"]