General Plant Information (Edit)
| Plant Habit: |
Herb/Forb
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| Life cycle: |
Perennial
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| Sun Requirements: |
Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
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| Flowers: |
Showy
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| Flower Time: |
Summer
Late summer or early fall
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| Underground structures: |
Rhizome
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| Propagation: Other methods: |
Division
Offsets
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| Containers: |
Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
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Posted by
FleudeLisCanna (Tenterfield NSW Australia) on Dec 28, 2014 10:09 PM concerning plant:
C. 'Tropical Moonlight': a "true" dwarf canna.
One in a series of dwarf cannas developed originally by Takii & Co. in Japan, c.1907. They were endeavouring to develop smaller true dwarf cannas that had reasonable-sized flowers and produced fertile seed for the seed market.
Their successful work still continues today. Their latest release was earlier this year in 2014!
The other 3 of the 4 first developed around 1907 (later also to change names via Tesselaar?) were:
C. 'Tinkerbell,' which became 'Tropical Yellow'
C. 'Japanese Rose,' which became 'Tropical Rose'
C. 'Tropical Ruby,' which became 'Tropical Red'
.. and quite often you see 'Tropical Red' still ID'd as 'Tropical Ruby.' They are the same canna.
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