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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.
This information about Mangave 'Spotty Dotty' PP29,917 displayed is based on research conducted in our horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We also will relate observations made about it as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we receive from others and we welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they can share any cultural information that would aid others in growing it.
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