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Cannas became very popular in Victorian times as garden plants, and were grown widely in France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. [ 9 ] [ 22 ] Some cultivars from this time, including a sterile hybrid, usually referred to as Canna × ehemannii , are still commercially available. [ 28 ]
She painted an extreme close-up of the canna lily entitled Inside the Red Canna in 1919. [11] It is a depiction of the large petals of the exterior of the flower, with focus on the interior through the use of contrasting shades of colors. The painting was made with red, orange, brown, and pink paint. [12]
Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna, 1919, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. The American artist Georgia O'Keeffe is best known for her close-up, or large-scale flower paintings, [1] which she painted from the mid-1920s through the 1950s. [2] She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2,000 paintings that she made over her career. [3]
The following list is based on the Taxonomic revision of the family Cannaceae in the New World and Asia, by Tanaka [4] and the proposal to conserve the name Canna tuerckheimii over C. latifolia.
Flowers small, orange-yellow. It is a tender species without rhizomes, and requires to be kept constantly growing. Peru." [1] [3] Nowadays, Canna excelsa is accepted as a synonym of C. paniculata. However, all currently known Cannas have rhizomes or tubers. [2]
Full heads of raspberry red flowers held high over the deeper green leaves. Orange or red staminodes (usually 2). The inflorescence stalk generally elongated and not branched. The fruits contain 3 to 5 seeds. The inflorescence stalk is triangular in cross-section and acutely angled; with three distinct longitudinal ridges. [4]
Cultivars, F1 and F2 hybrids, normally with small species-like flowers, but grown principally for their foliage. [2] [3] [4] This group has occasionally been referred to as the Année Group, after the originator, Théodore Année, the world's first Canna hybridizer. However, the use of an accented character in the name creates problems, both in ...
The species prefers light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils and requires well-drained soil. The preferred soil is acid, neutral and basic (alkaline). It cannot grow in the shade and requires moist soil. It is hardy to zone 10 and is frost tender. In the north latitudes it is in flower from August to October, and the seeds ripen in ...