Canna Italian Group 'Roma' is a tall aquatic Italian Group cultivar, equally at home as a water marginal or in the border; large green foliage, oval shaped, white margin, upright habit; round stems, coloured green & purple; flowers are open, yellow with orange blotches, throat red-orange, staminodes are large, edges lightly frilled, stamen is orange-red, petals red, fully self-cleaning; seed is sterile, pollen is low fertile; rhizomes are long and thin, coloured white and pink; 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

Naples

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, Italy

Italy

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, EU in 1898.

Synonyms

• Canna 'Cattleya' - sometime used as a synonym
  Synonym
  Synonyms are different words with almost identical or similar meanings. Words that are synonyms are said to be synonymous, and the state of being a synonym is called synonymy. The word comes from Ancient Greek syn and onoma . The words car and automobile are synonyms...
  
   for Canna 'Italia' as well.
• Canna 'Florence Vaughan'
  Canna 'Florence Vaughan'
  Canna 'Florence Vaughan is a medium Crozy Group canna cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, branching habit; oval stems, coloured green; flowers are open, yellow with red spots, staminodes are medium size, edges regular, fully self-cleaning; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type,...
  
  - this name belongs to a totally different Crozy Group cultivar.
• Canna 'Golden Eagle'
• Canna 'Heinrich Seidel' - this name belongs to a totally different cultivar.
• Canna 'Jennifer'
• Canna 'Madame Crozy'
  Canna 'Madame Crozy'
  Canna 'Madame Crozy is a medium sized Crozy Group canna cultivar; green foliage, large, ovoid shaped, branching habit; oval stems, coloured red; spikes of flowers are open, scarlet with a narrow gold margin, throat gold with vermilion spots, staminodes are medium size, edges regular, petals red,...
  
  - this name belongs to a totally different Crozy Group cultivar.
• Canna 'Mrs Cozy'
• Canna 'Orange Humbert'
• Canna 'Orange King Humbert'
• Canna 'Papillon'
• Canna 'Sunburst'
• Canna 'Yellow King Humbert'
  Canna 'Yellow King Humbert'
  Canna 'Yellow King Humbert' Burbank is a medium sized Italian Group Canna cultivar; foliage green, but often variegated purple markings and occasionally whole leaves purple, oval shaped, spreading habit; oval stems, coloured green + purple; flower clusters are open, spotted, colours yellow with red...
  
  - this name belongs to a totally different cultivar.

See also

• Canna
  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...
  
  
• List of Canna species
• List of Canna cultivars
• List of Canna hybridists