Plant in full sun along the coast but seems to appreciate some protection from afternoon sun in hot interior gardens. It has proven cold hardy to short duration temperatures down to 23° but leaf margins can burn much below this. It is an interesting plant for the collector and because of its smaller size and unique form makes a nice container specimen.

Agave oteroi's center of distribution is along the Rio Hondo and its side drainages. The Rio Hondo forms part of the border between the Mexican states of Puebla and Oaxaca. The specific epithet honors Mexican plant collector Felipe Otero, who first collected this plant in 1984 in Sierra Mixteca, the mountainous region located between the states of Puebla and Oaxaca in south-central Mexico. For many years this species was just labeled with his initials and collect number as FO-076. For more information about this and the subsequent official naming of this species, see our listing for Agave oteroi.

This cultivar came to us in 2012 as Agave titanota 'Medio Picta' from succulent collector and grower Tony Krock and listed it under this name when first selling it in 2017. Since using a Latinized cultivar name is illegitimate, it was later renamed by Plant Delights Nursery to 'Solar Eclipse' and in 2019 the species Agave oteroi was described so we later changed the name to Agave oteroi 'Solar Eclipse'. 

The information displayed on this page about Agave oteroi 'Solar Eclipse' is based on the research we have conducted about it in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant have performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we have received from others and welcome hearing from anyone with information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.