Is Canna easy to grow? A detailed guide to growing difficulty and care methods
Canna's family and genus
Canna, a perennial herbaceous plant with persistent roots, is a commonly used flowering plant in tropical and subtropical regions.
Canna's aliases
Canna is also called red canna, small-flowered canna, and small banana.
Canna's distribution range
Canna is native to tropical regions such as the Americas, India, and the Malay Peninsula. It is distributed in India and across both northern and southern parts of mainland China and other places, growing in areas at an altitude of 800 m. It has now been introduced and cultivated artificially, and can be cultivated throughout the country.
Canna's morphological characteristics
The entire Canna plant is green, reaching about 1.5 m tall. The leaves are ovate-oblong, 10-30 cm long and up to 10 cm wide.
Canna's flowers are relatively sparse, in racemes, rising above the leaves. The flowers are red and solitary.
The flower buds are ovate, green, about 1.2 cm long. There are 3 sepals, lanceolate, about 1 cm long, green and sometimes tinged with red. The corolla tube is less than 1 cm long, and the corolla lobes are lanceolate, 3-3.5 cm long, green or red.
The outer whorl has 3-2 staminodes, bright red, of which 2 are oblanceolate, 3.-4 cm long and 5-7 mm wide; the other one, if present, is especially small, 1.5 cm long and only 1 mm wide.
The labellum is lanceolate, 3 cm long, curved. The fertile stamen is 2.5 cm long, and the anther locule is 6 mm long; the style is flattened, 3 cm long, with half united with the filament of the fertile stamen.
Canna's capsule is green, long ovate, with soft spines, about 1.2-1.8 cm long. The flowering and fruiting period is generally from March to December.
Canna's flower language
The flower language is: a solid future.
According to Buddhist tradition, Canna was transformed from blood flowing from the toes of the Buddha, and it is a large flower.
In the sunlight, Canna blooming in scorching weather makes people feel its strong will to exist.