Canna 'Madame Crozy'

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Canna 'Madame Crozy' is a medium sized Crozy Group canna cultivar; green foliage, large, ovoid shaped, branching habit; oval stems, coloured red; spikes of flowers are open, scarlet with a narrow gold margin, throat gold with vermilion spots, staminodes are medium size, edges regular, petals red, fully self-cleaning; fertile both ways, not true to type, self-pollinating; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured purple; tillering is prolific. Introduced by A. Crozy, Lyon, France in 1889. Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM) in 1890.

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[edit] Synonyms

  • Canna 'Mrs Cozy'
  • Canna 'Mrs Croky'

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[edit] References

  • RHS Journal of 1890
  • RHS Journal of 1891
  • RHS Journal of 1894
  • Garden & Forest, 1894
  • L'Illustration Horticole, 15 March 1895
  • RHS Journal of 1895
  • RHS Journal of 1898-9
  • RHS Journal of 1899–1900
  • Railton & Co., Australia, 1900–1903
  • RHS Journal of 1908-9
  • Cassells Dictionary of Practical Gardening, Walter P. Wright, 1910
  • Tropical Plants & Gardening, 1935
  • Inter-State Nurseries, Hamburg, Iowa, USA. Catalogue 1939
  • Westover Nursery, Clayton, USA. Catalog 1939
  • Burgess Seed and Plant Co, Catalogue 1939
  • Burgess Seed and Plant Co, Catalogue 1941
  • Tropical Planting and Gardening, H.F. MacMillan, 5th Edition, 1954
  • The Popular Encyclopaedia of Gardening, H.H. Thomas and Gordon Forsyth, 1955
  • KAVB International Canna Checklist, September 2004

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