"ribbon cane" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 2, Letter 18, p. 336",
          "text": "The ribbon cane […] is called by the French rouge et d’or, being longitudinally striped yellow and deep red. It grows as high as the Bourbon, but is slenderer, and of course resists wind less.",
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          "ref": "1930, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, HarperCollins, published 1991, act I, page 49",
          "text": "Say, Matt, gimme a jint or two of dat green cane—dis ribbon cane is hard.",
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          "ref": "1944, Katherine Anne Porter, “The Old Order”, in The Leaning Tower and Other Stories, New York: Harcourt Brace, page 55",
          "text": "We’ll grow fine ribbon cane here. The soil is perfect for it. We’ll have all the sugar we want. But we must be patient.",
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          "ref": "1966, J. J. Phillips, chapter 1, in Mojo Hand, Berkeley: City Miner Books, published 1985, page 8",
          "text": "The voice she heard was slowly rough and delicately brutal, like stones being rattled in a can of ribbon cane syrup.",
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          "ref": "1994, Joe R. Lansdale, “Bubba Ho-Tep”, in The Best of Joe R. Lansdale, San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, published 2010, pages 51–52",
          "text": "His knees clacked together like stalks of ribbon cane rattling in a high wind.",
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