La Bohème

Canna 'La Bohème'

Canna 'La Bohème'

(French Group)(Heritage Group)

[Grand Opera Series]

Origin Howard & Smith
Parentage unknown
Height Medium, over 3ft/90cm
Foliage Green
Form Branching
Flower Pink
Blooming Good bloomer
Flowering Summer to frosts
Tillering Slow
Available Specialist

Introduced by Howard & Smith Nursery, USA in 1930's, Canna 'La Bohème' is a medium sized cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, acute apex, branching habit; spikes of flowers are open, peach tinged with pearl, staminodes are medium size, edges frilled, petals yellow, fully self-cleaning, good bloomer, flowers in summer until frosts, blooms open in the early morning; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type, capsules globose; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured white and pink; tillering is slow.

Canna 'La Bohème' is available from specialist growers.

References

David Clulow

See ‘Grand Opera Series’

Cannas for the Florida Landscape, by B. Tjia and R. J. Black, 1990

The Opera Series, La Boheme, peach-pink.

Brockings Exotics Catalogue, 1997

Dwarf, small cerise flowers with yellow picotee. (Probably ‘Journey’s End’)

Canna Handbook, Keith Hayward. Edition 1.06. © September 2000

Flowers pale peach. Leaves green. Tall.

Ian Cooke, The Gardeners Guide to Growing Cannas

(M) The large flowers are very frilly and ruffled. Soft peach tints are overlaid with pearl and subtle hints of yellow in the throat. This is really the Prima Donna of this theatrical series!

Aloha Tropicals, Internet October, 2001

Creamy pink to salmon large flowered variety produces abundantly on this medium growing canna. Makes a wonderful centre piece for the garden. $8.95

Podgora Gardens, Sonja Mrsich, North Island, New Zealand. Catalogue

Clear salmon-pink, edged light gold. 120cm.

KAVB International Canna Checklist, September 2004

Wayside Gardens; flowers soft peach overlaid with pearl tints, leaves green, height over 80 cm.

Claines Canna Collection 2006

Summary: Flowers soft peach overlaid with pearl. The large flowers are very frilly and ruffled. Green, large leaves complete the repertoire. One of the Opera series of Canna bred by Howard and Smith Nursery of Los Angeles, USA in the 1930's. Size: Medium Flower: Flowers soft peach overlaid with pearl. The large flowers are very frilly and ruffled. Foliage: Green leaves. Origin: One of the Opera series of Canna bred by Howard and Smith Nursery of Los Angeles, USA in the 1930's.  

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