Luffa acutangula is a cucurbitaceous vine that is commercially grown for its unripe fruits as a vegetable.

Mature fruits are used as natural cleaning sponges.

Its fruit slightly resembles a cucumber or zucchini with ridges.

[2] The young fruits of some Luffa cultivars are used as cooked vegetables or pickled or eaten raw, and the shoots and flowers are sometimes also used.

[3] Like Luffa aegyptiaca, the mature fruits are harvested when dry and processed to remove all but the fruit fibre, which can then be used as a sponge or as fibre for making hats.