Friday, 24 October 2008

Revisiting Canna 'Perkeo'


A small Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, maroon margin, upright habit; panicles of flowers are open, cerise-pink with a narrow yellow margin, staminodes are medium size, edges irregular, fully self-cleaning; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type, capsules globose; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured white and pink; tillering is average.

Introduced by W. Pfitzer, Stadt Fellbach, Stuttgart, Germany, EU in 1949.

Synonyms: C. 'Evening Star', C. 'Fata Morgana', C. 'Fatamorgana', C. 'Francis Berti'

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