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If the loofah is allowed to fully ripen and then dried on the vine, the flesh disappears, leaving only the fibrous skeleton and seeds, which can be easily shaken out. Marketed as luffa or loofah, the sponge is used as a body scrub in the shower. In Paraguay, panels are made out of luffa combined with other vegetable matter and recycled plastic.
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.
According to researchers in Florida, common cultivars for Luffa aegyptiaca include Smooth Boy, Smooth Beauty, and South Winner. [7] Many other cultivars were also mentioned in the Vegetable Cultivar Description for North America List 24, 1999: [8]
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The music was composed by Michael Tavera and the new songs were written by Michele Brourman and Amanda McBroom.. This was the third film in the series without James Horner's original score from the first film; the first two were The Great Longneck Migration and The Great Day of the Flyers, although Michael Tavera's older themes from previous sequels can still be heard.
A shower puff is a popular shower accessory used for cleaning one's skin in the shower as an alternative to a natural sponge or luffa. [1] It is used to scrub soap into one's skin when washing, and then wash it off again afterwards.
Different toy manufacturers and different cultures have produced different-looking roly-poly toys: the okiagari-koboshi (起き上がり小法師, "take a spill, get up, and arise"), Kokeshi doll and some types of Daruma doll of Japan, the nevаlyashka (неваляшка, "untopply") or van'ka-vstan'ka (ванька-встанька, "Ivan-get-up") of Russia, and Playskool's Weebles.