Nov 9, 2024
Plant of the Day
Sunday 10 November 2024
At the World Garden, Royal Horticultural Society Garden Hyde Hall, Essex, growing in a glasshouse with the extra protection and heat this provides was Luffa aegyptiaca (loofah, vegetable sponge). This tender, tendril-climbing vine is grown as an annual producing green and cylindrical fruits. These can be eaten young as a vegetable or left to mature when the fibrous interior can be used as an abrasive sponge.
Jill Raggett