| Scientific Name: | Canna x generalis |
| Common Name: | canna, garden cannas |
| Family Name: | Cannaceae |
| Origin: | Central America, Garden origin, Mexico, South America, South Asia / India |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Pendulous, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Very coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Bedding plant, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Specimen plant, Waterside planting |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Digitate (palmate), Elliptic, Sinuate, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Raceme, Orange, Yellow, Pink, Red, Dark-red, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Red, Dark-red, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Thick fleshy rhizomes, some cultivars up to 2m tall, eaves alternate, elliptic, 25-40(-90)cm long x 15-25(-40)cm wide, sheathing base, acute apex, undulating margins, pinnate venation, green with reddish tints to dark red (veins may have a contrasting colour in some cultivars); flowers in racemes, red, pink, orange, yellow; Jul-Sep. | |