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I prefer species cannas, or primary hybrids, since they tend to be resistant,
but not immune, to the predations of the Leaf Roller Caterpillar.
If you prefer the canna hybrids with enormous blooms, buy Dipel Dust by
the case and use it often! Most of those listed below will produce
viable seed, to sow or use as sling-shot ammunition.
Canna nomenclature is in a confused state, some use the names preferred by a taxonomic "lumper", P. J. M. Maas, and others champion the names proposed by taxonomic "splitters", Koyama & Tanaka. As a result, to be precise, I have had to use the species name in italics, followed by the authority (botanist who published the name) and the year it was published. Thus in one case, I am specifying Canna indica L., 1753, and not C. indica Curtis, 1799. L. refers to Linnaeus (a.k.a. Carl Nilsson, a.k.a. Carl von Linné) the "Father of Bortany" and 1753 to the year he published Species Plantarum, the beginning of our modern binomial system of nomenclature. |
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| Canna bangii - Perennial
Canna X 'Constitution' - Perennial Canna X 'Durban' - Includes plants called 'Phaison' & 'Tropicanna' - Perennial Canna edulis - Achira, Queensland Arrowroot - Though usually included within Canna indica L., 1753 (not C. indica Curtis, 1799) it is listed here separately because it is a cultigen, a plant form developed by man and cultivated since pre-Columbian times in northern South America for its edible starchy rhizome - Perennial
Canna flaccida - Perennial Canna glauca - Perennial Canna glauca 'Panache' - Perennial Canna glauca X indica 'Tama-Tulipa' - 'Tama-Tulipa' Canna - Perennial Canna indica var. indica - Includes plants known as Canna coccinea Mill., 1768, C. discolor Lindl., 1829 - Perennial Canna indica var. flava - Perennial Canna indica var. maculata - Also sold as Canna compacta var. cinnabarina, based on Canna cinnabarina Bouché, 1844 - Perennial Canna indica var. sanctae-rosae - Based on Canna sanctae-rosae Kränzl., 1912 - Perennial Canna X 'Intrigue' - Perennial Canna iridiflora - Perennial Canna iridiflora 'Ehemanii' - Also sold as 'Ehemannii' - Perennial Canna iridiflora 'Shelly's Pink' - 'Shelly's Pink' Canna - Perennial Canna latifolia - Synonymous with Canna tuerckheimii Kränzl., 1912? - Perennial Canna liliiflora - Chias, Tacara - Includes plants formerly known as Canna brittonii Rusby, 1902 - Perennial Canna lumbautum - A name with no botanical standing for plants collected in NE Mexico, a spelling variant of C. limbata Roscoe, 1824, which has been applied to plants from Ecuador to the Huasteca region of eastern Mexico. These are best called Canna indica L., 1753 (not C. indica Curtis, 1799) - Perennial Canna X 'Musifolia' - Also sold as 'Musafolia' & 'Musaefolia' - Banana Canna - Perennial Canna paniculata - Includes plants formerly known as Canna amambayensis Kränzl., 1916 and Canna lanuginosa Roscoe, 1828 - Perennial Canna patens - Also sold as Canna indica var. patens - Perennial Canna pedunculata - Perennial Canna X 'Ra' - A hybrid of Canna X 'Bounty' & Canna glauca - Also know as Canna 'Longwood Yellow' - Perennial Canna warscewiczii - Also sold as Canna indica var. warszewiczii - Perennial |