Canna Australia

Description

Canna ‘Australia’ is a tall Italian Group cultivar; bronze foliage, ovoid shaped, maroon margin, upright habit; oval main stems, coloured bronze; triangular flower stalks, coloured bronze; clusters of flowers are open, self-coloured red-orange, staminodes are large, edges frilled, petals purple with farina, fully self-cleaning, average bloomer, blooms open in the early morning; seed is sterile, pollen is low fertile; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured purple; tillering is average.

This is probably the finest of all large ‘black’ foliage cannas, and its foliage sheer presence often obscures the fine flowers it also produces.