Canna indica L.
വാഴച്ചെടി


Family: CANNACEAE
Sub-Family: Not available
English Name: Canna
Synonym: Canna orientalis Rosc.
Common Name: Chakkarachembu, Indian-shot, Poloke
Flowering & Fruiting Period: January-July
Distribution: Indo-Malesia
Habitat: Grown as garden plants, also getting naturalised
Uses: Ornamental garden plant
Key Characteristics: Rhizome creeping; aerial stem erect, glabrous. Leaves ovate-elliptic or oblong, base tapering, apex acuminate, nerves close. Raceme many-flowered. Flowers paired. Sepals, lanceolate. Petals 3, united at base, orange or red. Staminodes petaloid, bright-red, oblanceolate-spathulate, one staminode shorter. Ovary 3-celled; ovules many on axile placentae; style flattened, as long as the staminode. Capsule warty.