''Canna'' 'Madame Crozy' is a medium-sized 'Crozy Group'
canna cultivar; green foliage, large, ovoid shaped, branching habit; oval stems, coloured red; spikes of flowers are open, scarlet with a narrow gold margin,
throat gold with vermilion spots, staminodes are medium size, edges regular, petals red, fully self-cleaning; fertile both ways, not true to type, self-pollinating; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter,
[ coloured purple; tillering is prolific. It was introduced by A. Crozy, Lyon, France in 1890 and was named in honour of his wife.][ It was awarded the RHS ]Award of Garden Merit
The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established annual award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). It is based on assessment of the plants' performance under UK growing conditions.
History
The Award of Garden Merit ...
(AGM), in 1890.
It is hardy to USDA
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Zone 7 ( -15 °C) and can be grown in fertile and moist soils which are well drained.[
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Synonyms
* Canna 'Mrs Cozy'
* Canna 'Mrs Croky',[
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See also
* Canna
* List of Canna species
''Canna (plant), Canna'' species have been categorised by two different taxonomists in the course of the last three decades. They are Paulus Johannes Maria Maas, Paul Maas, from the Netherlands and Nobuyuki Tanaka from Japan.Tanaka, N. (2001) Taxo ...
* List of Canna cultivars
* List of Canna hybridists
The first hybridisation of Cannas was performed in 1848, and since then many Canna hybridizers have made their contribution to the genus over the centuries. This is a date ordered list of those people and their brief stories.
1848 Théodore Anné ...
References
* RHS Journal of 1890
* RHS Journal of 1891
* RHS Journal of 1894
* Garden & Forest, 1894
* L'Illustration Horticole, 15 March 1895
* RHS Journal of 1895
* RHS Journal of 1898-9
* RHS Journal of 1899–1900
* Railton & Co., Australia, 1900–1903
* RHS Journal of 1908-9
* Cassells Dictionary of Practical Gardening, Walter P. Wright, 1910
* Tropical Plants & Gardening, 1935
* Inter-State Nurseries, Hamburg, Iowa, USA. Catalogue 1939
* Westover Nursery, Clayton, USA. Catalog 1939
* Burgess Seed and Plant Co, Catalogue 1939
* Burgess Seed and Plant Co, Catalogue 1941
* Tropical Planting and Gardening, H.F. MacMillan, 5th Edition, 1954
* The Popular Encyclopaedia of Gardening, H.H. Thomas and Gordon Forsyth, 1955
* KAVB International Canna Checklist, September 2004
External links
Botanical Gardens, Lyon, France, EU
Cannaceae
Ornamental plant cultivars
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