Canna ‘Orange Ballcap’
Group(s): Crozy Group
Height: Medium, 1-2m
Flower: Orange
Blooming: Average bloomer
Foliage: Green
Form: Branching
Tillering: Slow
Origin: BURCH Karen
Availability: Specialist growers
Introduced by Karen Burch, USA, Canna (Balisier) ‘Orange Ballcap’ is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, ovoid shaped, branching habit; oval main stems, coloured green; spikes of flowers are open, self-coloured red-orange, staminodes are narrow, edges irregular, labellum is red-orange streaked with gold, style is gold with red-orange stripes, petals green, average 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 purple; tillering is slow.
Canna ‘Orange Ballcap’ is available from specialist growers.
Thor Dalebø