Canna ‘Epicure’
ORIGIN Truffaut, France, 1949
HEIGHT Medium, 1-2 metres
FORM Branching
FLOWER Red
FLOWERING Average bloomer
Canna ‘Epicure’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; foliage dark; spikes of flowers are open, self-coloured redcurrant, staminodes are medium size, 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 purple; tillering is slow.
Our earliest reference to this specimen is KAVB International Canna Checklist, September 2004.