Canna .27Musaefolia Peruviana.27 Canna 'Musaefolia'



canna (foliage group) musaefolia peruviana



canna (foliage group) musaefolia peruviana


stems green , downy, 5 ft. 6½ ft. high. leaves large, wide, green. flowers small, orange. rootstocks small. introduced e. chaté et fils, sentier saint-antoine, saint-mandé, paris, france, eu. in 1862.


a tall foliage group cultivar; green foliage, large, broadly oblong shaped, maroon margin, spreading habit; oval stems, coloured green; spikes of flowers open, red-orange orange-red spots, staminodes medium size, edges regular, labellum gold flecked, stamen gold orange markings, style orange, petals yellow, self-cleaning; fertile both ways, not true type, self-pollinating, capsules round; rhizomes thick, 3 cm in diameter, coloured pink , purple; tillering prolific.


this not flower in northern climates, if kept growing on winter in heated greenhouse or conservatory happily bloom either in late spring or late summer.








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