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Cannas became very popular in Victorian times as garden plants, and were grown widely in France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. [ 9 ] [ 22 ] Some cultivars from this time, including a sterile hybrid, usually referred to as Canna × ehemannii , are still commercially available. [ 28 ]
[2] [3] [4] This group has occasionally been referred to as the Année Group, after the originator, Théodore Année, the world's first Canna hybridizer. However, the use of an accented character in the name creates problems, both in pronunciation and keyboard entry, that it was felt that as they were grown primarily for foliage, then "Foliage ...
Zantedeschia albomaculata, commonly called the spotted calla lily [2] (although Calla is a genus unto itself) or the white spotted arum, is a species of flowering plant in the arum family, Araceae. [3]
Zantedeschia are relatively hardy plants, but some are more winter-hardy than others. In this regard there may be considered two groups, a hardy outdoor group with large white flowers (arum lilies) and less hardy group with white-spotted leaves and flowers in many colours (calla lilies), such as yellow, orange, pink and purple. [17]
In order to introduce colours to the large white calla lilies, like the many colours available in the dwarf summer calla lilies, attempts have been made to hybridise Z. aethiopica with Z. elliotiana. These have resulted in albino progeny, which are non-viable. [citation needed]
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Canna species have been categorised by two different taxonomists in the course of the last three decades. They are Paul Maas, from the Netherlands [1] [2] [3] and Nobuyuki Tanaka from Japan. [4]
Two photos of a calla lily Calla lily Close up of a calla lily. Support. Self Nom. --Fir0002 06:54, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC) Support the regular pic. The close-up isn't helpful in identifying the flower and thus doesn't provide useful info. Mgm| (talk) 07:36, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC) Support first version. brian0918 ™ 12:25, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC) Support ...