Mangave Hybrid 'Praying Hands' Trait Merging

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is a lack of a distinct Mangave hybrid that combines the unique characteristics of Manfreda and Agave, with existing cultivars not exhibiting the specific traits of rounded habit, dark olive-green lanceolate foliage, and wine-colored margins and apical mucro.

Innovation Solution

A Mangave hybrid, 'Praying Hands', is developed by crossing 'Bloodspot' as the female parent and a proprietary selection of Agave ocahui, exhibiting a unique combination of traits such as a rounded, mounded habit, dark olive-green lanceolate foliage with wine-colored margins and apical mucro, and moderate growth rate.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If existing Mangave cultivars are used, then they have established growth habits and foliage characteristics, but they lack the unique combination of rounded habit, dark olive-green lanceolate foliage, and wine-colored margins and apical mucro

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveunique trait combinationVSAvoiddistinctiveness

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines traits from two different parent plants - Manfreda 'Bloodspot' (providing rounded habit, dark olive-green color, wine-colored margins) and Agave ocahui PDN #7 (providing lanceolate foliage shape, introrse apices, moderate growth rate) - to create a new hybrid cultivar with a unique combination of characteristics not found in existing Mangave cultivars

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Stability of the object's composition

If asexual propagation is used to maintain unique characteristics, then stable and identical plants are produced in successive generations, but propagation time and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetrait stabilityVSAvoidpropagation time

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs asexual propagation methods (core shoot tip and shoot tip tissue culture) that were pre-established and optimized before commercial distribution, allowing for rapid multiplication of the unique hybrid plant while maintaining genetic stability and consistency of the distinctive traits across multiple generations

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUSPP34508P2X <i>mangave </i>plant named ‘Praying Hands’

Publication Date: 2022.08.16 WALTERS GARDEN INC

AI summary

A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Praying Hands’ characterized by habit that is rounded, mounded, with lanceolate foliage. The overall shape is globose as it develops and becomes tear-drop to pyriform-shaped in maturity. The numerous, dark, olive-green, lanceolate leaves have large, firm, deep wine-colored apical mucro, and few, small, widely-spaced marginal teeth. Leaf bases are outwardly and then become upwardly in the middle and strongly introrse toward the apices. Leaves are dark olive-green with small light wine spotting and thin deep wine-colored margins. The new plant is suitable as a potted houseplant plant, as a container plant for the patio or garden and for the garden or planted in the landscape.