Champion (2)

Canna ‘Champion (2)’
(Crozy Group)

ORIGIN TURC Ernest
HEIGHT Medium, 1-2 metres
FOLIAGE Green and purple variegated
FORM Branching
FLOWER Pink
FLOWERING Average bloomer

Canna ‘Champion (2) is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green and purple variegated foliage, oval-acuminate shaped, branching habit; oval stems, coloured purple; spikes of flowers are open, salmon and rose-red, throat gold markings, staminodes are medium size, edges irregular, labellum is gold, fully self-cleaning, average bloomer, blooms open in the early morning; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type, capsules globose; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured white and pink; tillering is prolific.

There is a previous cultivar with the name Champion.

Canna 'Champion'

Canna 'Champion'

References

KAVB International Canna Checklist, September 2004

E. Turc; flowers salmon, leaves brown, height over 80 cm.

Claines Canna Collection 2006

A plant with this name took part in the 1906 RHS canna trials at Wisley, Nr London. This is not the same cultivar, and while it is still one of our favourites, we do wish that hybridists would follow the naming rules. Nevertheless, this is a champion, with large soft-salmon-pink petals, overlaid with streaks of darker, almost red, colouring and flushes of gold in the throat. Light bronze foliage completes a superb picture.