Canna ‘New Sensation’
(Crozy Group)

ORIGIN SHEPPARD Marcelle. 1987
HEIGHT Medium, 1-2 metres
FOLIAGE Green
FORM Spreading
FLOWER Red
FLOWERING Outstanding bloomer

Canna ‘New Sensation’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, ovoid shaped, spreading habit; triangular stems, coloured green; panicles of flowers are open, self-coloured burnt-red, staminodes are large, edges lightly frilled, labellum is burnt-red speckled with gold, stamen is burnt-red rayed with gold, petals purple, 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 purple.

Our earliest reference to this specimen is correspondence 2006, when we established that  it was grown out from seed purchased from Parkes as ‘Opera Seeds’.