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x Mangave 'Snow Leopard' PP31,137 - A very attractive fast growing evergreen plant that grows up as a tight offsetting rosette to 18 inches tall by 2 feet wide with long, lance-shaped deep-green fleshy leaves with light cherry red spots over their entire surface that show up most dramatically over the white margins. Compared to Mangave 'Kaleidoscope', which we continue to grow, this cultivar has white margins (versus yellow) and dark spots cover more the leaves that turn pink when on the margin. As with its parent plant, x Mangave 'Jaguar', this plant has the same 6-7 foot tall vertical spikes with its lightly fragrant green flowers held with multiple flowers on the branched peduncles. These flowers have long exerted red stamens tipped with bright yellow anthers when it blooms in late summer. Plant in full to part sun in a well-drained soil and irrigate occasionally. Has proven hardy down into the mid 20s and listed by some as good down to USDA Zone 8a but hardiness has not really been well tested on this plant. A great looking plant with amazing colors that is best heightened in bright light to full sun. Has proven to be a great a very nice container specimen and the flowers should prove very attractive to hummingbirds.
Mangave 'Snow Leopard' was selected as a whole plant mutation in a tissue culture propagated batch of x Mangave 'Jaguar' that was found in March 2015 in the Walters Gardens tissue culture laboratory and was introduced by them in 2018. The parent plant, to 'Jaguar', is thought by some to be an intergeneric hybrid between an unknown agave and the wide ranging Manfreda guttata, but some consider 'Jaguar' a cultivar of Manfreda guttata, which was described by Joseph Nelson Rose in his 1905 Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. While it is rare in cultivation, Rose noted it to be "the commonest Manfreda in Mexico" and it has also been variously described as Polianthes guttata, Leichtlinia protuberans, Agave guttata and Agave protuberans.
Mangave 'Snow Leopard' received US Plant Patent PP 28,614 in November 2019 and we offered it for sale from 2020 until 2022.
The information about Mangave 'Snow Leopard' PP31,137 displayed on this web page is based on our research conducted in the nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We also include observations made about it as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they can share cultural information that would aid others in growing this plant. |
