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Accession Data:

Canna liliiflora Warsz. ex Planch.

  • Common Name: Lily Flowered Canna
  • Family: Cannaceae Juss.
  • Synonym(s): Canna brittonii Rusby

  • Country of Origin: SE. Peru to Bolivia

  • Description: Herb up to 3 m with stout, erect stems. Leaves large, oblong, acuminate. Flowers 10–13 cm. (4-5") long, honeysuckle-scented, borne in a short, terminal raceme; calyx and corolla of a flower (generally used when the two are similar).">perianth tubular, the three outer petaloid lobes linear-oblong, convolute, reflexed, tinged green, the three inner ones straight and extended, recurved at end, white, tinted yellowish-green.

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 201900139
  • Source: Kress Collection, SI#2006007
  • Provenance:
    Collector# 53937
    Wen, J., Nee,
    Bolivia: 
    
  • Accession Date: 07-10-2019
  • Bench: 3116 - EVO: Propagation - Mist
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 02-18-2025

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Liliopsida
  • SubClass: commelinids
  • Order: Zingiberales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Cannaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

References (internal):

  • Plants from the Kress Collection (NMNH/Smithsonian)
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Bolivia / Peru

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, 22 February, 2019.
  2. WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Friday, 22 February, 2019.
  3. Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) used with the permission of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560-0193. Last accessed on Wednesday, 17 July, 2019.
  4. Wikispecies. Last accessed on Wednesday, 29 January, 2020.

data regenerated on Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:51:03 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Canna liliiflora

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Current Accessions in the Cannaceae

  • Canna indica W/C
  • Canna liliiflora
  • Canna tuerckheimii W/C
  • Canna indica
  • Canna jaegeriana
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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