Agave sisalana

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Agave sisalana - Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope

agave, American aloe, century plant - tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber

genus Agave - type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae

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Agave sisalana (sisal) is of a great economic interest because it is a source of fiber in semi-arid areas.

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Agave sisalana Perrine (Agavaceae), popularly known as sisal in is a monocotyledonous plant from Mexico.

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Sisal is manufactured from the Agave Sisalana plant, a spiky bush that grows in South America and East Africa.