Canna 'Austria'
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Canna 'Austria' is a medium sized Italian Group Canna
cultivar with green foliage, oblong shaped, upright habit; oval stems, coloured green; flowers are cupped, self-coloured yellow, throat orange-red spots on yellow, staminodes are large; seed is sterile, pollen is low fertile; rhizomes are long and thin, coloured white; tillering is prolific. Introduced by C. Sprenger
, Dammann & Co., Naples, Italy, EU in 1893.
Announced along with C. 'Italia', and caused much interest as their large flowers were considered to be a major breakthrough.
The breeding is Canna 'Madame Crozy' x Canna flaccida 'Le Roi'.
Canna (plant)
Canna is a genus of nineteen species of flowering plants. The closest living relations to cannas are the other plant families of the order Zingiberales, that is the gingers, bananas, marantas, heliconias, strelitzias, etc.Canna is the only genus in the family Cannaceae...
cultivar with green foliage, oblong shaped, upright habit; oval stems, coloured green; flowers are cupped, self-coloured yellow, throat orange-red spots on yellow, staminodes are large; seed is sterile, pollen is low fertile; rhizomes are long and thin, coloured white; tillering is prolific. Introduced by C. Sprenger
Carl Ludwig Sprenger
Carl Ludwig Sprenger was a German botanist, born on 30 November 1846 at Güstrow, Mecklenburg and died 13 December 1917 on the island of Corfu....
, Dammann & Co., Naples, Italy, EU in 1893.
Announced along with C. 'Italia', and caused much interest as their large flowers were considered to be a major breakthrough.
The breeding is Canna 'Madame Crozy' x Canna flaccida 'Le Roi'.
Synonyms
- Canna 'Austra'
- Canna 'Canary Bird'
- Canna 'King Midas'
- Canna 'Lemon Zest'
- Canna 'Richard Wallace' - a totally different Crozy Group cultivar.
- Canna 'Souvenir de Jeanne'
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See also
- CannaCanna (plant)Canna is a genus of nineteen species of flowering plants. The closest living relations to cannas are the other plant families of the order Zingiberales, that is the gingers, bananas, marantas, heliconias, strelitzias, etc.Canna is the only genus in the family Cannaceae...
- List of Canna species
- List of Canna cultivarsCanna (Plant) GalleryThis is a gallery of named canna cultivars, representative of the various Canna cultivar groups. Names of cultivars are regulated by the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, are registered with an International Cultivar Registration Authority and conform to the rules of the...