Canna ‘Cherry Red’
syns. Pfitzer’s Cherry Red
(Crozy Group)
ORIGIN PFITZER Wilhelm
HEIGHT Medium, 1-2 metres
FOLIAGE Green
FORM Branching
FLOWER Red
FLOWERING Good bloomer
Canna ‘Cherry Red’is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, branching habit; spikes of flowers are open, self-coloured cherry-red, staminodes are medium size, edges irregular, labellum is cherry-red, petals red with farina, fully self-cleaning, good 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 purple; tillering is average.
The old family nursery of Wilhelm Pfitzer, established in the 1840s, did not use its name as a prefix when naming its cultivars. According to the Canna guru Johnny K. Johnson this was a marketing ploy by some nurseries in the USA, where the respected name of Pfitzer added prestige to the humble given name, and so the synonym ‘Pfitzer’s Cherry Red’.