Dishcloth gourd (Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb.): flowering stem with separate sectioned fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

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[1772]
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16728i
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Dishcloth gourd (Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb.): flowering stem with separate sectioned fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The dishcloth gourd is also known as the sinkwa towel gourd

Luffa aegyptiaca Miller is the familiar bathroom loofah

Young fruits of Luffa acutangula are eaten as a vegetable

Publication/Creation

[Romae (Rome)] : [Bouchard et Gravier], [1772]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 36.6 x 22.9 cm

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Luffa Arabum, semine albo. Tournefort Act. Par. 1706.

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Wellcome Collection 16728i

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