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Rows of spiky sisal plants grow in a large plantation near Fort Dauphin, southern Madagascar, with distant mountains visible under a clear sky. Mauritius hemp Bundles of natural sisal rope stacked closely together, showing coarse, tan fibers and rough texture. A man sits among abaca plants in a dense, leafy grove in the Philippines, stripping long white fibers from abaca stalks scattered on the ground. Sisal
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Leaf fiber plantation
Sisal (Agave sisalana) plantation near Fort Dauphin (Tolagnaro), southern...
© Aline Rakotoson Babelon/Dreamstime.com
Mauritius hemp
Mauritius hemp (Furcraea gigantea).
Forest and Kim Starr/U.S. Geological Survey
Sisal
Rope made from the leaf fibers of sisal.
© Nimon Thong-uthai/Dreamstime.com
Abaca leaf fibers
A worker stripping fiber from abaca (Musa textilis) in the Philippines.
© Charles W. Miller/Shostal Associates
Sisal
Leaf fibers of sisal drying on poles, near Tanga, Tanzania.
Lynn McLaren—Rapho/Photo Researchers
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