Madame Angèle Martin

Canna 'Madame Angèle Martin'

Canna 'Madame Angèle Martin'

syns Angèle Martin, Pink Snow 

(Premier Group)(Heritage Group)

Origin Vilmorin-Andrieux

Parentage unknown

Height Medium, over 3ft/90cm

Foliage Dark

Form Branching

Flower Bi-coloured

Blooming Good bloomer

Flowering Summer to frosts

Tillering Average

Available General

Introduced by Vilmorin-Andrieux et Cie, Nurserymen, France in 1915, Canna 'Madame Angèle Martin' is a medium sized Premier Group cultivar; dark foliage, oval shaped, acute apex, maroon margin, branching habit; triangular main stems, coloured green + purple; flowers are open, salmon tinged with yellow, staminodes are medium size, edges irregular, petals green, 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; tillering is average.

Canna 'Madame Angèle Martin' is generally available.

References

Brockings Exotics Catalogue, 1997

(T) pale pewter bronze foliage, flowers soft apricot suffused rose

Hart Canna, 2000, Internet October 2000

Flowers cream salmon pink. Leaves green Short

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

See ‘Madame Angèle Martin’

Old House Garden, Ann Arbor, Michigan Internet, November, 2000

Introduced in 1915. Angelic flowers - golden-apricot suffused with pink, like a Tahitian sunrise. And angelic foliage – ‘pale pewter-bronze’, to quote my friend Ian Cooke of the British National Collection of Cannas. And exceptionally rare, having just been reintroduced by us from France. How can you resist? 3-5 feet (1, $8.25 - 10, $61.00).

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

Vilmorin-Andrieux 1915. Flowers pale salmon-pink tinged yellow. Leaves brown. Shortish, up to 1m.

Hart Canna, 2001, Catalogue

Medium height, bronze foliage. Large flowers of pure pinky apricot. £10.00 for 3 rhizomes.

Ian Cooke, The Gardeners Guide to Growing Cannas

(T) A lovely old cultivar with flowers in soft apricot, blushed with rose. The foliage is a pale pewter-bronze. Altogether the effect is very subtle. It was raised by Vilmorin-Andrieux in 1915. Available in British and European nurseries.

Rivendell Botanic Garden, List January 2001

Orange flowers, reddish green leaves.

French Grown Stock

1.4m. Dark foliage. Pale pink flowers.

KAVB International Canna Checklist, September 2004

Vilmorin-Andrieux, 1915; flowers salmon-pink, tinged yellow, leaves brown, height over 80 cm.

Claines Canna Collection 2006

Summary: David Clulow in Venezuela reports: "A superb parent as it is dominant for self cleaning as are virtually all its hybrids, even with the worst non self cleaning mate, have produced seedlings which are all self cleaning." A medium sized, solid clumper this bronze leaved icon produces really special salmon-pink blooms tinged with yellow. It has lasted the course of time because of its special qualities. Size: 140-160cms (4'6"-5'3") Flower: Salmon-pink, tinged yellow. Foliage: Brown leaves. Origin: Vilmorin-Andrieux, France, EU, 1915.

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