Brocade

Canna ‘Brocade’
(Crozy Group)

ORIGIN M. Sheppard, 1980’s
PARENTAGE Raised from Grand Opera Series open crossed seed.
HEIGHT Medium, 1-2 metres
FLOWER Pink
FLOWERING Good bloomer

Canna ‘Brocade’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; foliage green; panicles of flowers are open, peach and gold, staminodes are medium size, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer, blooms open in the early morning; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type.

References

Kelly's Plant World, California, USA. 1989

Flowers orange-rose and yellow-gold. Foliage green. Height 2-4 ft. Breeder: Marcelle Sheppard, Texas, USA

Personal correspondence in 2006

Grown out from seed purchased from Parks, called “Opera Seeds”. If that is mixed seed from the “Grand Opera Series”, then it was a great find. Breeder: Marcelle Sheppard, Texas, USA