Saturday 7 March 2009

Revisiting Canna 'Salmon Pink'


A small cultivar; green foliage, large, oval shaped, branching habit; round stems, coloured green; spikes of flowers are open, self-coloured salmon, throat yellow, staminodes are medium size, edges ruffled, stamen is yellow with salmon markings, style is yellow, petals red; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type, capsules round; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured white and pink; tillering is average.

Introduced by W. Pfitzer, Stadt Felbach, Stuttgart, Germany, EU. Synonyms are C. 'Pfitzer’s Salmon Pink', C. 'Pfitzer's Salmon', C. 'Pfitzers Salmon Pink'.

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