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What's the difference between zucchini and loofah?
First, different families and genera

1, Chihuahua: wax gourd.

2. Luffa: Luffa.

Second, the appearance is different.

1, Chih-qua: The stems are yellow-brown bristles with villous ridges and grooves. Petiole stout, 5-20 cm long, covered with yellow-brown bristles and villous; Leaf blade kidney-shaped, nearly round, wide 15-30 cm, 5-7-lobed or sometimes split, lobes broadly triangular or elliptic, apex acute, margin denticulate, base deeply heart-shaped, bent and open, nearly round, 2.5-3.5 cm deep and wide respectively.

The surface is dark green, slightly rough and sparse, and gradually falls off with age, becoming almost hairless; The back is rough, gray-white, and the bristles are rough. The veins are slightly convex on the back of the leaves and are densely hairy. Tendrils 2-3, hirsute and villous.

2. Luffa: The stems and branches are rough, angular and puberulent. Tendrils slightly stout, pubescent, usually 2-4 forked. Petiole rough, long 10- 12 cm, with inconspicuous grooves, nearly glabrous; Leaf blade triangular or nearly round, about 10-20cm long and about 65438+20cm wide, usually palmately 5-7-lobed, with triangular lobes, and the middle one is longer and 8- 12cm long.

The top is acute or tapered, the edge is serrated, and the bottom is deeply heart-shaped, with a bending depth of 2-3 cm and a width of 2-2.5 cm. The top is dark green, rough and warty, and the bottom is light green, short, palmately veined and white.

Three. distribute

1, Chihuahua: native to southern China, widely cultivated in Guangdong and Guangxi. It has a long history of cultivation in Lingnan, and it has also been cultivated in Hainan, China for many years. Jiegua likes high temperature and is not strict about the length of sunshine. Love wet, not tolerant of waterlogging. Zhigua has wide adaptability to soil, and the soil pH value is neutral or slightly alkaline. ?

2. Luffa: It is widely cultivated in the north and south of China, and also cultivated in temperate and tropical regions of the world. There is wild in southern Yunnan, but the fruit is short.

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