EPPO Global Database

Agave sisalana(AGVSI)

Overview
Code created in: 1996-10-28

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: AGVSI
  • Preferred name: Agave sisalana
  • Authority: Perrine

Notes

Mexico. Known only as a cultivated plant, now throughout the Tropics, for the production of sisal. Also cultivated as an ornamental


Common names
Name
Language
sisal Dutch
sisal English
sisal agave English
sisal hemp English
agave sisal French
sisal French
Sisalagave German
Sisalhanf German
agave sisalana Italian
canapa di sisal Italian
sisal Italian
sisal Portuguese
sisaleira Portuguese
агава сизалевая Russian
сизаль Russian
agave sisal Spanish
sisal Spanish
henequen Spanish (HN)
maguey tuxtleco Spanish (HN)