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Accession Data:

Canna indica L.

  • Common Name:
  • Family: Cannaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: Trop. & Subtrop. America

  • Culture: Rhizome geophyte

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 201900138
  • Source: Kress Collection, SI#1995186
  • Provenance:
    Kress# 95-5418
    Betancur # 5997
    Bentacur, J., Kress, W. J.
    Colombia: Antioquia: Mutatá
    Road to Bajira
    28 Jan 1995
    
  • Accession Date: 07-10-2019
  • Bench: 3314 - NEOB: Blue Tanks South
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 3 confirmed on 02-20-2025

Classification:

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

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019

References (internal):

  • Plants from the Kress Collection (NMNH/Smithsonian)
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Texas / Florida / Louisiana / South Carolina / Mexico Central / Mexico Northeast / Mexico Gulf / Mexico Southwest / Mexico Southeast / Belize / Costa Rica / El Salvador / Guatemala / Honduras / Nicaragua / Panama / Bahamas / Cuba / Dominican Republic / Haiti / Jamaica / Leeward Is. / Puerto Rico / Trinidad-Tobago / Windward Is. / French Guiana / Guyana / Suriname / Venezuela / Bolivia / Colombia / Ecuador / Peru / Brazil West-Central / Brazil Northeast / Brazil Southeast / Brazil North / Brazil South / Argentina Northeast / Argentina Northwest / Paraguay / Uruguay

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.

data regenerated on Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:18:01 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Canna indica

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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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