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Products > Mangave 'Spotty Dotty' PP29,917
 
Mangave 'Spotty Dotty' PP29,917 - Spotty Dotty Mangave

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Image of Mangave 'Spotty Dotty' PP29,917
 
Habit and Cultural Information
Category: Succulent
Family: Agavaceae (now Asparagaceae)
Origin: Mexico (North America)
Evergreen: Yes
Bloomtime: Infrequent
Parentage: (A. pablocarrilloi x A. bovicornuta x Manfreda)
Height: 1 foot
Width: 2-3 feet
Exposure: Full Sun
Summer Dry: Yes
Deer Tolerant: Yes
Irrigation (H2O Info): Low Water Needs
Winter Hardiness: 20-25° F
x Mangave 'Spotty Dotty' PP29,917 (Spotty Dotty Mangave) - A very attractive succulent plant with rosettes to 10 inches tall by up to 3 feet wide with 3 inch wide blue-green leaves that are heavily spotted with dark burgundy that are slightly wavy and folded slightly upwards with the margins edged with small reddish orange soft teeth and a long soft terminal spine.

Plant in full to half day sun in a well-drained soil and give occasional to regular irrigation. It is cold hardy to around 25° F and suitable to USDA Zones 9,10 and 11. Other Mangave have been noted to be resistant to deer and rabbit predation and this one might be as well.

Mangave 'Spotty Dotty' is a 2017 introduction in the Walters Gardens MAD ABOUT MANGAVEŽ Collection of plants. It is a hybrid was created by Hans Hansen at Walters Gardens in Zeeland Michigan that is the result of crossing A. pablocarrilloi (AKA Agave gypsophila, Hort.) with Agave bovicornuta and Manfreda maculosa.

It received its US Plant Patent PP29,917 in November 2018 and we offered it for sale in 2020 and 2021. The picture on this page courtesy of Walters Gardens. 

The information displayed on this page about Mangave 'Spotty Dotty' PP29,917 is based on our research conducted about this plant from books in our nursery library as well as from information that is provided by reliable online resources. We also have included our own observations made about it as it grew in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers when we had them in our nursery field. We also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.

 
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