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Agave (Agavaceae)

Luis

Tour Guide, Quilotoa Lake, Ecuador

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Agave is native plant in the andes,this plant is really useful, especially from this plant we use the juice, After hard work making a hollow in center of plant and wait to next day we get agave juice, collecting in a pot we cook it when boil we take of the stove and wait while be cold, our ancestor drink this juice as medicine because have a lot of calcium,but when rest for a few days became as alcohol
From the leaves we take fiber and this material we use for handicraft, from the root in some community people have make shampoo