Canna indica
Canna indica
Kanaçiçeği
Like C. variabilis but bracts 16-18 x2 cm; bracteoles narrowly elliptic-ovate, 2.5-3.5 x 1 cm, reddish, pruinose; sepals lanceolate, 2.5-3 x0.5-1 cm, pruinose, acute; petals erect, lanceolate, 6 x 0.5-1 cm, acuminate; staminodes 4, concolorous or variously marked and coloured, broadly obovate to almost orbicular, 8-10 x 3-4 cm; half-fertile stamen narrower, clawed, anther to 1.5 cm, yellow; ovary globose, 8 mm, red pruinose or green, verrucose; style linear-lanceolate, to 6 cm, glabrous. Fl. 5-10. Cultivated, s.l.-1050 m.
Described from tropical Asia, Africa and America
