Luffa can be used not only as a skin scrubber but also as a vegetable much as its cousin cucumber would be used. Alameda Natural Grocery Produce Manager Marc describes luffa as a vegetable as “kind of like a ‘zucucumbokra,’ or has having qualities of zucchini, cucumber and okra all rolled into one”.
Persian cucumber
Armenian cucumber – actually a type of muskmelon
Japanese cucumber