Canna 'Salmon Watsonia' is an Australia-bred canna, developed by Mr. Bernard Yorke, Qld. Year unknown.

It has masses of pink/salmon blooms on burgundy/green stems and holds the flowers above the foliage. They are not overly large blooms, but make up for this with their masses of "frangipani-shaped" petals in their glorious colour, which are long lasting on the plants. Flowers will have hues of pale mandarin at times when viewed in strong sunlight, or as the blooms age. Flowers may also have darker markings in the same tones.

This canna flower shape is very like those in Mr. Yorke's 'Moulin' range.

Foliage emerges as deep burgundy and matures to deeper olive green with burgundy ribbing and overtones. It will remain darker longer when growing in areas with less intense sunlight. The stems also follow this change.

It is quite lovely to see a clump of this canna with its various coloured growth, at its different stages, with the flowers above it!

Growth and establishment are fast and the plant will readily reach heights of 5ft, with flower stems above that, up to another 2ft. It clumps loosely and tillers at times away from the parent clump with long rhizomes.

It produces good quantities of seed and appears to be fertile both ways, and the seeds are therefore fertile, but all fertilized seeds hold the ability to produce plants differing from the parents, due to the pollination process. The only way to have this canna exactly as the parent is by rhizome division.

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