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Vegetable Cultivar Descriptions for North America

Gourd - Luffa Ridge, Lists 1-26 Combined

Edited by Deena Decker-Walters

The Cucurbit Network
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Miami, FL 33256

Ma Family Luffa - Vendor: Seed Saver's Exchange. Parentage: old Chinese heirloom brought to USA in 1970. Characteristics: fruit 2' long, 75 days to edible stage, 120 days to maturity. 1998.

Pusa Nasdhar - Characteristics: fruit medium-sized, rind relatively light green; from India. Martin's Vegetables for the Hot, Humid Tropics, 1979.

Satputia (Hermaphrodita) - Parentage: from India. Characteristics: fruit small, hermaphroditic. Martin's Vegetables for the Hot, Humid Tropics, 1979.

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