Percy Lancaster

Canna 'Percy Lancaster'

Canna 'Percy Lancaster'

syns African Scarlet Speckle, Color Clown, Gaiety, Sunset

(French Group)(Heritage Group)

Origin PERCY-LANCASTER Sydney

Parentage unknown

Height Medium, over 3ft/90cm

Foliage Green

Form Branching

Flower Bi-coloured

Blooming Outstanding bloomer

Flowering Summer to frosts

Tillering Average

Available Specialist

Introduced by Sydney Percy-Lancaster, Alipore Cannas, India, Canna 'Percy Lancaster' is a medium sized cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, acute apex, white margin, branching habit; oval main stems, coloured green; spikes of flowers are open, yellow heavily spotted with red, staminodes are large, edges ruffled, petals yellow, fully self-cleaning, outstanding bloomer, flowers in 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 average.

Canna 'Percy Lancaster' is available from specialist growers.

In the collection of the Royal Agri-Horticultural Society, Alipore, Calcutta, India. Dr. Khoshoo & Dr. I. Guha: Evolution of Cultivated Canna, 1966, 

Named by the breeder for his father, Mr Percy Lancaster who founded the Alipore Canna Collection in the early 1890's.

References

Sydney Percy-Lancaster, In an Indian Garden, 1927

Blooms yellow heavily spotted red. Recommended for exhibition.

Dr. Khoshoo & Dr. I. Guha: Evolution of Cultivated Canna 1966

x generalis, tall (80-160cm), foliage green, broad staminodia (5-7 cm) spotted. In the collection of the Royal Agri-Horticultural Society, Alipore, Calcutta, India.

Claines Canna Collection

Yellow, heavily spotted with red.

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