Canna ‘Delaware’
ORIGIN ARMSTRONG Robert, 1972
HEIGHT Medium, 1-2 metres
FOLIAGE Green
FORM Branching
FLOWER Pink
Canna ‘Delaware’ is a medium sized Conservatory Group cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, branching habit; triangular stems, coloured green; panicles of flowers are open, self-coloured coral-pink, staminodes are medium size, fully self-cleaning, 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 pink; tillering is slow.
Our earliest reference to this specimen is Brockings Exotics Catalogue, 1997.