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x Mangave 'Man of Steel' PP29196 - A tidy small symmetrical rosette forming plant to just under 1 foot tall by about 20 inches wide with 7-inch-long quarter to half inch wide silver gray waxy sword-like leaves that are covered in small pin size purple spots, edged with tiny brown teeth and tipped by the same color flexible terminal spine. Multiplies well from the base of the plant before it ever flowers.
Plant in full sun to light shade in a relatively well-drained soil and irrigate occasionally. It has proven hardy to around 20° F but with speculation is might prove hardier and be useful into USDA Zone 7b. This plant is a 2016 introduction in the Walters Gardens MAD ABOUT MANGAVEŽ Collection bred by Hans Hansen. The patent description notes that this plant is the result a cross in the summer of 2011 between Mangave 'Bloodspot' as the seed parent with the narrow leafed Agave stricta as the pollen parent. It was granted U.S. Plant Patent PP29196 in April 2018. We offered a small quantity of this plant briefly in 2023 after our trial plant flowered and produced suckering plantlets.
The information about Mangave 'Man of Steel' PP29196 that is displayed on this web page is based on research conducted in our nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We will also include observations made about this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We also incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they share cultural information that aids others growing this plant.
Please note that after 46 years in business, San Marcos Growers will be discontinuing nursery operations by the end of 2025 and the property will be developed for affordable housing.
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