Canna sylvestris

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Canna sylvestris, Roscoe (C. portoricensis, Bouche).Plant stout, 4-5 or 6 ft.: lvs. long-oblong or oblong- lanceolate, acuminate, bright green, to 2½ ft. long and one-third as wide: raceme slender, usually squarrose, rarely simple; fls. narrow and elongated, red; sepals lanceolate and acute, ½in. long; petals much longer, lanceolate and very acuminate; staminodia sub-equal, narrow-spatulate; lip narrow, strongly revolute. W. Indies, Cent. Amer. C. limbata, Roscoe (C. patens, Hook. C. aureo-vittata, Lodd. C.floribunda,C.variegata, C. recurvata, C. loeta and C. ventricosa, Bouche), of S. Brazil, has unlike staminodia, the largest being 2-lobed, the medium one emarginate, the other entire, all red with yellow margins. B.R. 771. L.B.C.449 . CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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