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Canna ‘Cerise Belle’
Group(s): Foliage Group
Height: Medium, 1-2m
Flower: Red
Blooming: Good bloomer
Foliage: Dark
Form: Branching
Tillering: Average
Origin: DALEBØ Thor
Breeding: C. ‘Alice McGuigan’ x C. ‘Ehemannii’
Availability: Specialist growers
Introduced by Thor Dalebø of Normandy, France, France in 2011, Canna (Balisier) ‘Cerise Belle’ is a medium sized Foliage Group cultivar; dark green and red variegated foliage, ovoid shaped, maroon margin, branching habit; hanging panicles of flowers are pendant panicles, bell-shaped, self-coloured cerise, staminodes are medium size, edges irregular, style is cerise streaked with gold, petals yellow, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer, blooms open in the early morning; fertile both ways, not true to type, self-pollinating, capsules globose; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured pink and purple; tillering is average.
Canna ‘Cerise Belle’ is available from specialist growers; breeding is C. ‘Alice McGuigan’ x C. ‘Ehemannii’.
The old-timers told me that Ehammani was sterile, both seed and pollen. Every time I found a few grains of pollen, I spread it on the nearest new flowering plant, and after several years eventually obtained one seed. No seedling in history has ever been spoilt like this one, and the resultant variety has been a pleasant surprise, both a beauty and shaped like a bell.Thor Dalebø