Canna ‘Crimson Beauty’
syns. American Beauty, Pfitzer’s Crimson Beauty
(Crozy Group)
ORIGIN PFITZER Wilhelm
HEIGHT Medium, 1-2 metres
FOLIAGE Green
FORM Spreading
FLOWER Red
Canna ‘Crimson Beauty’is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, maroon margin, spreading habit; oval stems, coloured green; panicles of flowers are reflexed, self-coloured crimson, staminodes are medium size, 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.
Canna 'Crimson Beauty'Photograph courtesy of Alice Harris.
Our earliest reference to this specimen is Kelly’s Plant World, California, USA. 1989.
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