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.

The selection Agave oteroi 'Filigree Devil' is a cresting sport found within our crops of Agave oteroi 'Filigree', itself a unique small form the Sierra Mixteca Agave that we introduced in 2010. 'Filigree' was a single clone selected from seed grown crops of Agave oteroi (then known as A. sp. FO-076) for its tight growth and long eyelash like spines on the margin and over the years we began to notice that within the crops we were seeing a form that was more tightly clustered with smaller rosettes. We selected out this form, named it 'Filigree Devil' and began selling it in 2019. We thank Holly Krock of Krock Nursery for suggesting the name for this plant. 

The information displayed on this page about Agave oteroi 'Filigree Devil' 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.