Alipore Beauty

Canna 'Alipore Beauty'

Canna 'Alipore Beauty'

(French Group)(Heritage Group)

Origin PERCY-LANCASTER Sydney

Parentage unknown

Height Medium, over 3ft/90cm

Foliage Green

Form Spreading

Flower Pink

Blooming Good bloomer

Flowering Early summer to frosts

Tillering Slow

Available Specialist

Introduced by Sydney Percy-Lancaster, Alipore Cannas, India, Canna 'Alipore Beauty' is a medium sized cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, acute apex, spreading habit; clusters of flowers are open, self-coloured rose, staminodes are medium size, edges regular, petals green, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer, flowers in early summer until frosts, blooms open in the early morning; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type, capsules round; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured white and pink; tillering is slow.

Canna 'Alipore Beauty' is available from specialist growers.

Raised by the Canna guru of India, Mr Sydney Perecy-Lancaster, over 50 years as the Secretary of the Royal Agro-Horticultural Society in India. His father, Percey Lancaster, started breeding the Alipore Cannas in 1892. In the collection of the Royal Agri-Horticultural Society , Alipore, Calcutta, India in 1966.

References

Sydney Percy-Lancaster, In an Indian Garden, 1927

Soft rose pink. Green foliage. medium.

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