EditorialHechima or sponge cucumber flower, Luffa cylindrica. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialAmerican momordica out of net profit, Luffa operculata (L.) Cogn, signed: P.S. (sculp.), Fig. 22, p. 22, p. 73, Sluyter, P. (sc.), 1706, Caspari Commelin ... Horti Medici ... plantae rariores et exoticae. Lugduni Batavorum: apud Federicum Haringh, 1706.
EditorialHechima or sponge cucumber flower, Luffa cylindrica. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.