Thursday 4 February 2010

Canna 'Fairy Queen'


A small Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, branching habit; panicles of flowers are open, red with a wide gold 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 Antoine Wintzer of The Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, PA, USA in 1899.

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