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Agave isthmensis 'Mendoza' (Dwarf Butterfly Agave) - A small, offsetting agave with the individual rosettes reaching 4 to 6 inches wide to about the same height with very short blue-green ovate leaves that have a lighter variegation towards the center. The leaves and are at their widest near the tip and have a slightly gritty texture with margins that have shallow rounded lobes bearing small teeth and a reddish terminal spine.
Plant in full coastal sun or filtered to part sun inland and irrigate only occasionally. It can take mild frosts and perhaps short duration temperatures down to 26°F. A great Agave for little nooks in a coastal succulent garden and also great as a container plant.
There are a few forms of this plant that comes from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which is located along the southern coast of Oaxaca. For more information on the species see our listing of Agave isthmensis. This lightly variegated form came to us from Tony Krock who got the plant from his friend and fellow succulent collector Joe Mendoza.
The information displayed on this page about Agave isthmensis 'Mendoza' is based on the research we conducted about it in our nursery horticultural library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include some of our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops 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 additional information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.
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