General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: In Water
Wet
Wet Mesic
Mesic
Plant Height: 4 to 6 feet
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Orange
Yellow
Bi-Color: Yellow with orange throat and orange blotches
Bloom Size: 4"-5"
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Underground structures: Rhizome
Suitable Locations: Bog gardening
Resistances: Humidity tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Other info: Sterile, does not set seed.
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Offsets
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger

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Common names
  • Canna

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Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2012-09-28

Date: 2006-06-20
Location: Tenterfield NSW Australia
Date: 2013-01-21
C. 'Cattleya'
Location: Tenterfield NSW Australia
Date: 2013-01-13
Distinctive Stems/Stalks

Date: 2009-06-10
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2015-07-29
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2013-08-30
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2015-08-23
Location: Tenterfield NSW Australia
Date: 2013-01-13
Distinctive Leaf Edging.
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2015-08-12
Showing the distinctive creamy-white leaf margins.

Date: 2006-06-20

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Location: Canoga Park, California
Date: 2013-08-21
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2015-08-07
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2015-08-12
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2015-07-15
Comments:
  • Posted by FleudeLisCanna (Tenterfield NSW Australia) on Jan 26, 2015 4:03 PM concerning plant:
    Canna 'Roma' is one of the most misnamed and misidentified cannas of which I am aware.

    It is often identified as 'Britannia', 'Italia', 'Yellow King Humbert,' and 'Florence Vaughan,' as well many others, all of which are totally different cannas.

    Personally, I have trialed the 3 most "alike" -- Britannia, Roma, and Cattleya -- and have found distinctive differences in their blooms, rhizomes, and leaves.
    The flower colour may vary on Roma to look like the others, but it has rarely done this in my garden.

    The most distinctive difference is that 'Italia' has always a solid red lower labellum with a "notch" or hare-lip on the lower edge.
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Canna Identification by FleudeLisCanna Jan 29, 2015 1:42 AM 10

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