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...despread in tropical Africa, also in Madagascar and Yemen. Cultivated as a fibre plant in South India. In India and Nepal the shiny, wool-like bast fibre from young stems is locally made into cordage and coarse textiles, sometime ...

...the prop roots are used in New Guinea to make fishing lines and nets. The fibre is strong enough to be used for shoelaces. The leaves are not suitable for ...by putting them between two bamboo laths which are moved up and down. The fibre is dried in the shade, because full sunlight might adversely affect colour ...

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Fibre can be extracted from the bast. Medicinal uses are recorded for Sumatra, Ja ...ern Himalayas and Assam (India) as a fibre plant. Its bast fibre (ultimate fibre cells 25-30 mm long and 13 μm wide) has been made into rope, nets, fishing ...

...tion was interrupted, and was not resumed. It was formerly cultivated as a fibre plant on Caribbean Islands. ...d along roadsides up to about 300 m altitude. Other ''Sida'' spp. yielding fibre, but in South-East Asia with primary use as medicinal plants, include ''S. ...

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The bark yields a useful, strong, water-resistant fibre, which is locally used for cordage. The fruit clusters are sweet and edible ...donesia should be attributed to ''D. longifolia'' . In New Guinea the bark fibre of an unidentified ''Debregeasia'' species is made into string for women's ...

| Fibre= 1 ...weaving. Ropes made from this fibre are used for pulling heavy loads. The fibre was formerly used for tying together pieces of frameworks. ...

...stachyum'' Hook.f. are used for similar purposes in Indo-China. ''Gnetum'' fibre is strong and durable. ...

...so used in paper making and for caulking. It does not seem to be used as a fibre plant in South-East Asia. The seeds are eaten, e.g. in China and Kashmir. ...mer Soviet Union. In China the plants are harvested at full flowering. The fibre is extracted by retting followed by hackling. The ultimate fibres are 2.5-4 ...

...in the tropics. In the Philippines, India, Mexico and Cuba cultivated as a fibre plant. Locally grown as an ornamental or for fencing in Java, where it also ...as "Salvador henequen" used to be of considerable economic importance for fibre production in El Salvador and is also cultivated in Guatemala. ...

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| Fibre= 1 The bark is used for tying, and the bark fibre for making rope and weaving cloth. Formerly the bark was made into barkclot ...

...cellulose, 5% hemicelluloses, 11% lignin and 11% ash. After degumming the fibre contained 7% moisture, 80% cellulose, 7% hemicelluloses and 1% lignin. The ...

Pantropical. Cultivated as a fibre crop in India and Sri Lanka. The bast fibre is comparable in quality to that of kenaf ( ''Hibiscus cannabinus'' L.) and ...

| Fibre= 2 The bark yields excellent fibre for rope making. The fibre was traditionally used by fishermen to make fishing lines and to string cau ...

| Fibre= 1 Fibre from the bark is used for making rope. Properly prepared, it can be woven i ...

...rm implements, pounding stick (heavy woody stems), bee forage, fibre (bark fibre used as rope), toothbrush. ...

| Fibre= 1 The bark fibre is used for cordage. The bark was formerly made into barkcloth. The wood is ...