Rubra Nerva

Canna ‘Rubra Nerva’

Origin CHATÉ Emile, 1862
Height Medium
Foliage Dark
Form Arching
Flower Red
Blooming Low bloomer
Tillering Slow

Canna ‘Rubra Nerva’ is a medium sized Foliage Group cultivar; green and purple variegated foliage, large, lanceolate shaped, maroon margin, weeping habit; spikes of flowers are erect, self-coloured red, staminodes are long and narrow, edges regular, petals red with farina, fully self-cleaning, low 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.

Canna 'Rubra Nerva'

References

Le Canna, E. Chaté et fils, 1867

1862.

Subtropical Gardening - Robinson 1868

Stems dark-red, from 3½ ft. to 5 ft. high. Leaves long and narrow, lance-shaped, reflexed, dark-red rayed with purple. Flowers large, of a cinnabar red. Rootstocks dark-red, very long, conical, and cylindrical. Resembles a weeping willow.