Bavaria

Canna 'Bavaria'

Canna 'Bavaria'

syn Sunburst
(Italian Group)(Heritage Group)

Origin SPRENGER Karl
Parentage unknown
Height Medium, over 3ft/90cm
Foliage Green
Form Spreading
Flower Bi-coloured
Blooming Average bloomer
Flowering Early summer to frosts
Available Specialist

Introduced by Karl Sprenger of Messrs Dammann et Cie, Italy in 1897, Canna 'Bavaria' is a medium sized Italian Group cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, spreading habit; flowers are open, yellow with red blotches, throat red, staminodes are large, average bloomer, flowers in early summer until frosts, blooms open in the early morning; seed is sterile, pollen is low fertile; rhizomes are long and thin.

Canna 'Bavaria' is available from specialist growers.

References

Notes on the Orchid-flowering Cannas. Garden & Forest 29 September 1897

Italia is a beautiful Canna, to be sure, perhaps the best one of this class yet introduced, but Burgundia and Bavaria are so much like it that a careless observer would pass them by as all of the same kind. Bavaria & Burgundia. Both varieties are, however, of smaller stature than Italia and have smaller foliage. The flowers in all three are of a brilliant canary-yellow upon which two shades of rich apricot red are successively overlaid. In Italia the red colors are run together in the throat to make somewhat regular solid blotches bordered with very deep bands of the clear yellow, like an exaggerated Queen Charlotte. In Bavaria there is very little of the darker red shade, while the lighter red is scattered in small dots well out upon the petal-like staminodia, giving an effect more like that of Florence Vaughan.

RHS Journal of 1898-9

Damman & Cie, 1899

Bavaria - 1896 Height about 3 feet. Leaves large, green, with a blueish hue Very large spikes and flowers of a brilliant golden yellow covered all over with scarlet spots. Quite unique and extremely handsome.

Railton & Co., Australia, 1900-1903

BAVARIA. Golden-yellow, very brilliant, covered all over with scarlet spots; large green leaves; quite unique and extremely handsome. 1/6 each.

Das Geschlecht der Canna, by Árpád Mühle

Bavaria. (Dam.) height of 150 cm. Leaves cyan. Flowers very large, cattley-shaped, bright golden yellow, richly covered with large, scarlet-red spots.

L. Clause Catalogue, Spring 1929

Bavaria. – Feuillage vert. Fleur jaune taché d'écarlate. Haut, 1 m. 30.

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