''Canna'' 'Bengal Tiger' is an Italian Group
canna cultivar with
variegated foliage; plant height 190 cm; foliage height 140 cm; upright stems and gently spreading leaves; ovoid foliage, background of green (137A); veins variegated yellow (mostly 13B), but paler in places (13D); maroon edge to leaf; staminodes, labellum and stamen bright orange (28B) blushed a darker, reddish (32A) in places; yellow (15A) on edges; stigma deep orange-red; petals strongly flushed red. The flower has a crumpled silk appearance; seed and pollen has very low fertility levels; rhizomes thick, up to 3 cm in diameter.
Gallery
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History
Originated at the
Agri Horticultural Society of India
The Agri Horticultural Society of India was founded in 1820 by William Carey (missionary), William Carey on the Alipore Road, Kolkata. It has a flower garden, greenhouses, a research laboratory and a library. It houses a massive collection of ...
,
Bengal in the 1960s. It was later transported to the
African continent, by
Sydney Percy-Lancaster, the Secretary of the Society, when he retired to
Rhodesia
Rhodesia (, ), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was the ''de facto'' successor state to the British colony of S ...
; hence the synonym of C. 'Pretoria' when it was discovered by US plant collectors in South Africa in the late 1960s. Also imported to the United States from India in 1963 by
Glasshouse Works.
Glasshouse Works Web Site
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In 2002, granted the 'Award of Garden Merit' (AGM) in the Canna outdoor trials held at RHS Wisley
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, under the synonym of ''Canna'' 'Striata'[
]
Synonyms
The following list of synonyms is not complete, as some new ones have been created recently.[
* ''Canna'' 'African Yellow' - confined to Europe
* ''Canna'' 'americanallis var. variegata' - confined to USA
* ''Canna'' 'aureo-striata'
* ''Canna'' 'Damascus Road' - confined to Southern USA
* ''Canna'' 'Imperialis'
* ''Canna'' 'Kapit'
* ''Canna'' 'malawiensis variegata'
* ''Canna'' 'Pallida Variegata' - confined to Europe
* ''Canna'' 'Panach'
* ''Canna'' 'Panaché' - confined to France.
* ''Canna'' 'Pretoria'
* ''Canna'' 'Pretoria Dwarf'
* ''Canna'' 'Striata' - this name belongs to an early cultivar from 1868, still being grown in Europe.][Robinson W. (1868) Subtropical Gardening]
* ''Canna'' 'Striatum'
* ''Canna'' 'Striped Wonder'
* ''Canna'' 'Tropicanna Gold'
* ''Canna'' 'Zebra Summer'
* ''Canna'' 'Zebra Sunset'
References
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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
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 ...
Cannaceae