Talk:Luffa

message: I was going to change "anal" to "annual" on the first page but like the user below me I hit edit and it doesn't show.  Someone fix this immediately!  Some kid is gonna put "anal vines" in their report for grade school.. thanks to wikipedia.  Weird.. now it isn't showing up.  Keep an eye out for it I guess.
 I'm trying to remove this text: "this well known plants can be eaten and are very tasty and colorful" but when I click edit, it doesn't show me the text... Anyone else seen this problem? Its right below the stub notice. Havocrazy 03:03, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind, it seems to be a bad edit on vegetable-stub Havocrazy 03:07, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Annual" vines

message: Reference to Bill O'Reilly's loofah fetish needed here, as it is probably the only way most people have heard of this topic.
really? I have heard it from a different source ;)
An anonymous censor removed the O'Reilly mention.  Does it warrant being reverted, or is it too trivial?  I'd heard of loofahs before that whole scandal, and I've never confused them with falafel either. Schizombie 05:46, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Bill O'Reilly (commentator)#Sexual harassment lawsuit]], [[Andrea Mackris]], and the [[Luffa]]

message: Anal Vines was the song that Christopher Plummer sang in the movie "The Sound of Music " —Preceding unsigned comment added by RxDrK (talk • contribs) 17:15, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Edelweiss or rather the Edelweiss (song)?  Nice Mondegreen !--195.137.93.171 (talk) 01:33, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

text: I agree. Ashmoo (talk) 13:23, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anal Vines, Anal Vines..... 

message: can anybody tell me the color of the luffa and the type of its inflorecence  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.6.149.107 (talk) 12:13, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  the flower and inflorecence 

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thread_title: [[WP:FOOD|WikiProject Food and drink]] Tagging

message: Ridge gourd links to this page, but they're different fruits. Can anyone fix this?
The ridge gourd or sponge melon has 10 sharp edges, unlike a luffa.DaveDodgy (talk) 01:39, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ridge gourd - Isn't a Luffa!  

message: After some googling, I cannot find anywhere any verifiable evidence that the fruit can defeat jaundice. It also seems like this is somewhat unrealistic due to the fact that jaundice is caused by various conditions related to liver disfunction. I am hence removing the word 'effective' from the page. If anybody can cite any references to the contrary, please replace it.Labrat256 02:18, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Effective Remedy? 

message: The second paragraph reading: "The Luffa acutangula is commonly known as ridged gourd and is called Tauri 'توری' in Urdu..." is gratuitous and seems unnecessary.  I am going to remove it. MrPMonday (talk) 07:04, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Names in other languages

message: This article mentions the Japanese name hechima, and I was puzzled as to why there is no wikilink to the ja:WP article. Turns out this :ja:ヘチマ is linked (by the wikidata thing, I suppose) to the separate article Luffa aegyptiaca. I realise that the genus name and a particular species name are not botanically the same thing, but the content of the two articles is confusingly overlapping. I do not know how to sort out the wikidata thing (personally, I think the idea that you can simply list all encyclopedic topics in all languages is a miasma). And I'm not sure what the best step would be. Perhaps a discussion about a merge... ? Imaginatorium (talk) 09:28, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overlap with [[Luffa aegyptiaca]] 

message: What sort of citation is actually needed for discussing that the loofah is the source of the scrubbing sponge of the same name?!
Jbsegal (talk) 16:45, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  “Citation needed”‽