''Canna'' Italian Group 'Roma' is a tall aquatic Italian Group cultivar, equally at home as a water marginal or in the border; large green foliage, oval shaped, white margin, upright habit; round stems, coloured green & purple; flowers are open, yellow with orange blotches, throat red-orange, staminodes are large, edges lightly frilled, stamen is orange-red, petals red, fully self-cleaning; seed is sterile, pollen is low fertile; rhizomes are long and thin, coloured white and pink; tillering is prolific. Introduced by
C. Sprenger, Dammann & Co.,
Naples
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,
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, EU in 1898.
Gallery
Image:Cannalily.JPG, Canna 'Roma'
Image:Canna Roma RevueHorticule 1898.jpg, Extract from 1998 illustration in '' Revue Horticole''
Synonyms
* ''Canna'' 'Cattleya' - sometime used as a
synonym
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are all ...
for
''Canna'' 'Italia' as well.
* ''Canna''
'Florence Vaughan' - this name belongs to a totally different Crozy Group cultivar.
* ''Canna'' 'Golden Eagle'
* ''Canna''
'Heinrich Seidel' - this name belongs to a totally different cultivar.
* ''Canna'' 'Jennifer'
* ''Canna''
'Madame Crozy' - this name belongs to a totally different Crozy Group cultivar.
* ''Canna'' 'Mrs Cozy'
* ''Canna'' 'Orange Humbert'
* ''Canna'' 'Orange King Humbert'
* ''Canna'' 'Papillon'
* ''Canna'' 'Sunburst'
* ''Canna''
'Yellow King Humbert' - this name belongs to a totally different cultivar.
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 ...
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List of Canna cultivars
This list of ''Canna'' cultivars is a gallery of named cultivars of plants in the genus '' Canna'' that are representative of the various ''Canna'' cultivar groups (i.e., groups of very similar cultivars).
Names of cultivars conform to the rules ...
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List of Canna hybridists
References
* Revue Horticole, André, 1898, ''Trois Nouveaux Cannas Italiens''
Cannaceae
Ornamental plant cultivars