Canna flaccida

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Canna flaccida in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Canna flaccida, Salisb. (C. glauca and C. angustifolia, Walt.). St. green and glabrous, 4-6 ft., very leafy below: lvs. ovate-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acute, green: raceme simple, lax and few-fld., the bracts very small; sepals lanceolate or oblong, acuminate, 1 in. long, green; petals broadly linear-lanceolate to obovate and reflexed, to 3 in. long (as is also the tube); staminodia obovate, sulfur-yellow,2-3 in. long by 1½ in. broad; lip large, yellow. Swamps S. C. to Fla., near the coast. L.B.C. 6:562. G.W. 12, p. 253.- Useful for its good habit and iris-like fls. C. Reevesii, Lindl., of India and the Philippines, has the outside staminodia acute rather than all obtuse or emarginated as in C. flaccida, and fls. less than 4 in. across rather than about 6 in. across. B.R. 2004. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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