Madame Paul Caseneuve

Canna ‘Madame Paul Caseneuve’

syn Madame Paul Caseneuve
(Crozy Group)

Origin CROZY Antoine, 1902
Height Medium
Foliage Dark
Form Spreading
Flower Pink
Blooming Outstanding bloomer
Tillering Prolific

Canna ‘Madame Paul Caseneuve’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; bronze foliage, oval shaped, maroon margin, spreading habit; oval main stems, coloured purple; flowers are open, self-coloured pink, throat pink with yellow stripes, staminodes are large, edges regular, petals purple with farina, fully self-cleaning, outstanding 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 pink and purple; tillering is prolific.

References

L. Clause Catalogue, Spring 1929

Madame Paul Cazeneuve. – Feuillage pourpre. Fleur rose unicolore. Haut 1 m. 10.

Brockings Exotics Catalogue, 1997

(M) Bronze foliage, peachy pink flowers.

Canna Handbook, Keith Hayward. Edition 1.06. © September 2000

A Crozy, 1902. Apricot flowers. Bronze foliage. Tall, 1·5m.

Old House Garden, Ann Arbor, Michigan Internet, November, 2000

Like her kindred spirit ‘Mme. Casaneuve’ is sensual, ethereal, lovely, and rare. In his 1909 Das Geschlecht der Canna, Árpád Mühle praised her ‘luxurious’ bronze foliage and ‘large, flesh-pink’ flowers shaded with apricot and gold. Returned from France. One look and I fell in love 3-5 feet. (1, $8.25 – 10, $61)

Ian Cooke, The Gardeners Guide to Growing Cannas

(M) This cultivar has peachy-pink flowers and bronze foliage. It is very similar to ‘Madame Angèle Martin’ and was raised by A. Crozy in 1902.

Rivendell Botanic Garden, List January 2001

Peach flowers, red-blue leaves.

KAVB International Canna Checklist, September 2004

A. Crozy, 1902; flowers azalea-pink (RHS 38B), pink-yellow striped towards centre, leaves brown, height over 80 cm.

Nepalensis grandiflora