Canna ‘La Bohème’
Group(s): Crozy Group
Height: Medium, 1-2m
Flower: Pink
Blooming: Good bloomer
Foliage: Green
Form: Branching
Tillering: Slow
Origin: Howard & Smith
Availability: Specialist growers
Introduced by Howard & Smith Nursery, USA in 1930’s, Canna (Balisier) ‘La Bohème’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, branching habit; spikes of flowers are open, peach tinged with pearl, staminodes are medium size, edges frilled, petals yellow, fully self-cleaning, good 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 white and pink; tillering is slow.
Canna ‘La Bohème’ is available from specialist growers.
One of the Opera series of Canna.Thor Dalebø