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Canna ‘Corail’
Group(s): Crozy Group
Height: Small, under 1m
Flower: Orange
Blooming: Good bloomer
Period: Summer until frosts
Foliage: Dark
Form: Branching
Tillering: Average
Origin: TURC Ernest
Availability: Specialist growers
Introduced by Ernest Turc Nursery, Angers, France, Canna (Balisier) ‘Corail’ is a small Crozy Group cultivar; bronze foliage, mucronate shaped, acute apex, branching habit; oval main stems, coloured purple; triangular flower stalks, coloured purple; clusters of flowers are open, self-coloured red-orange, staminodes are medium size, edges regular, petals purple with farina, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer, flowers in summer until frosts, 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 white; tillering is average.
Canna ‘Corail’ is available from specialist growers.
Thor Dalebø