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Canna ‘Cancer’
Group(s): Crozy Group
Height: Medium, 1-2m
Flower: Multi-coloured
Blooming: Good bloomer
Foliage: Green
Form: Spreading
Tillering: Slow
Origin: YORKE Bernard
Availability: Specialist growers
Introduced by Bernard Yorke, Australia, Canna (Balisier) ‘Cancer’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, spreading habit; oval main stems, coloured green; flowers are open, yellow heavily spotted with orange-red, throat orange-red, staminodes are large, edges irregular, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer, blooms open in the early morning; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type, capsules round; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured pink and purple; tillering is slow.
Canna ‘Cancer’ is available from specialist growers.
Thor Dalebø