Canna generalis Cleopatra Colocasia very low-light house plant

very low-light house plant

25" wide foliage

a great specimen plant for the summer woodland garden

Aspidistra fungilliformis makes a superb

Canna generalis Cleopatra Colocasia very low-light house plantWe couldn't believe our eyes when they fell upon this canna at the Kunming Botanic Garden in China in 1996. Large purple blotches wove their way through the green leaves and into the flower stalks. If the flowers form on the purple leaf side, they are red and from the green side of the leaf, they are yellow sometimes from both you get the picture. This unstable and highly variable chimera turned out to be an old but hard to find cultivar called Canna