Canna is a perennial root plant

Canna's Family and Genus

Canna, a perennial herbaceous plant with rhizomes, is a flowering ornamental plant commonly used in tropical and subtropical regions.

Canna's Other Names

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, and is distributed in India as well as various places across northern and southern China. It grows 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 in height. 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. The calyx has 3 segments, 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 of staminodes is 3-2 in number, 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 chamber is 6 mm long; the style is flat, 3 cm long, 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, the canna blooming in the scorching heat makes people feel its strong will to exist.