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Canna flaccida Salisb.

Bandanna of the everglades (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Zingiberales > Cannaceae > Canna

Characteristics

Rhizomes fleshy. Leaves: sheath and blade glaucous; blade narrowly ovate to narrowly elliptic, 20--50 ´ 8--12 cm, base gradually narrowed into sheath, apex acute. Inflorescences racemes, simple, bearing 1-flowered cincinni, fewer than 5 flowers per inflorescence; primary bracts 10--30 cm; secondary bracts generally absent; floral bracts persistent, (broadly) ovate-triangular, 0.5--1 ´ 0.4--0.7 cm, glaucous, apex entire or irregularly lobed; bracteoles ovate-triangular, 0.3--2 cm  4--8 mm, apex entire or irregularly lobed. Flowers pure yellow, 10--15 cm; pedicels short, to 0.5 cm; sepals narrowly oblong-elliptic, 2.5--3.5 ´ 0.4--0.6 cm; petals strongly reflexed, 10--12 cm, tube ca. 4 cm, lobes narrowly oblong-elliptic, 6--8 cm  4--13 mm, base sharply reflexed; staminodes 3, broadly ovate, 9--11 ´ 8--9 cm; labellum not obviously reflexed, broadly ovate, ca. 10 ´ 8--9 cm. Capsules irregularly ellipsoid, 5--6 ´ 4--4.5 cm. Seeds brown, nearly globose, 6--6.5 ´ 5--6 mm. 2n = 18.
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Plants 1-2 m. tall, wholly glabrous; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, narrowly acute to acuminate, base gradually and continuously narrowed to the sheath, 20-45 cm. long, 8-11 cm. broad, glaucous; inflorescence racemiform, simple, bearing a few pairs of virtually sessile, showy yellow flowers; sepals oblong-elliptic, 2-3 cm. long; corolla 8-9 cm. long, yellow, the lobes narrowly oblong-lanceolate, sharply reflexed at anthesis, the tube 3-4 cm. long; staminodia broadly obovate, 9-10 cm. long, yellow; capsules irregularly ellipsoid, 5-6 cm. long, 4.0-4.5 cm. thick, spiny-fimbriate.
A herb.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.0 - 2.0
Root system rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a temperate plant.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 5-9
Soil texture 1-4
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-9

Usage

An edible starch is extracted from the rhizome.
Uses environmental use gene source medicinal
Edible rhizomes
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 21 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
Minimum temperature (C°) -12
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Flower

Canna flaccida flower picture by c chelle (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Canna flaccida world distribution map, present in Panama and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:146049-1
WFO ID wfo-0000343781
COL ID QM3C
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Canna flaccida Eurystylus reevesii Canna reevesii Canna flaccida Canna flava Eurystylus flaccidus Eurystylus flaccida Canna glauca var. flava Canna glauca var. flaccida
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