C. 'Nadine': Bred by Teven Garden, Australia.

A "chance seedling" found under a potting bench (what a "find"!) and named after the grower's daughter.

Grows to 1.8 metres, in tight clumps and not prone to "running," with green/blue, erect, wide-ish foliage with tips bending outwards at the ends as the leaves grow and age.
The stems have a distinctive red/burgundy stripe, which ages to burgundy/brown.
The flower heads have distinctive variegated colours of apricot, lemon yellow, and apricot.
Blooms open to gorgeous pastel colours of pale lemon yellow in the throat, with variegated colours of pinks, apricots, peach, lemon yellow, and some white throughout the blooms in a backgound of colours, streaks, and blotches.
Seeds are large, fertile, and easy to grow. It is a "chance seedling," so the parents are unknown.

Very few of this canna were ever available. Plants and seed are limited (so far) to Australia.

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