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Canna ‘Pale Beauty’
Group(s): Crozy Group
Height: Small, under 1m
Flower: Pink
Blooming: Good bloomer
Foliage: Green
Form: Branching
Tillering: Average
Origin: SHEPPARD Marcelle
Availability: Specialist growers
Introduced by Marcelle Sheppard Nursery, Texas, USA, Canna (Balisier) ‘Pale Beauty’ is a small Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, branching habit; oval main stems, coloured green; spikes of flowers are open, pale pink with a narrow saffron-yellow margin, throat saffron-yellow with pale pink blotches, staminodes are large, edges lightly frilled, labellum is pale pink with saffron-yellow blotches, stamen is saffron-yellow with pale-rose spots, style is saffron-yellow, petals green, 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 average.
Canna ‘Pale Beauty’ is available from specialist growers.
Fades after several days, but still as attractive in a more discreet manner.Thor Dalebø