Water hyacinth are harvested from water and then made into ropes. We have 500 people are making roping around Myanmar.

With broad, thick and glossy ovate leaves, water hyacinths may rise some 1 metre height from water . The leaves are wide 10-20 cm, supported above the water surface by long, spongy and bulbous stalks. The feathery, freely hanging roots are purplish black. An erect stalk supports a single spike of 8-15 conspicuously attractive flowers, mostly lavender to pinkish in colour with six petals. One of the fastest growing plants known, water hyacinth reproduces primarily by way of runners or stolons, eventually forming daughter plants. They may also reproduce via seeds. The common water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is a vigorous grower known to double its population in two weeks.