ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. PP36,636, issued on April 29, was assigned to Walters Gardens Inc. (Zeeland, Mich.).
"Mangave plant named 'Hope and a Prayer'" was invented by Hans A Hansen (Zeeland, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new and unique X Mangave plant named 'Hope and a Prayer' characterized by habit that is a rounded mounded and becomes globose to pyriform-shaped with maturity. The numerous lanceolate leaves are dark, olive-green in the center and yellowish to chartreuse on the margin with small, widely-spaced, marginal teeth and apical mucro becoming wine-colored. Leaves develop small reddish-purple spots on adaxial and abaxial sides with high ultraviolet...