Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Super small canna, 1 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
This is a hybrid I have made and I have kept it around because of how odd it is. It is possibly the smallest full grown canna I have seen. I am still not sure on releasing it. The problem I have is I only want to release superior hybrids and though I do run into a lot of odd ball stuff that I cannot seem to let go of they are still not something I would like people to know my cannas by. This one tends to not shed its flowers well at all. It is one that I have to pull the dead off of it. It is also fairly weak compared to most and has had a tendency to rot for no reason. Like many things this is a genetic mutation or freak. Maybe breeding with it could produce healthy stock but in most cases like this they are sterile. I have not tried it but I will this coming season. It would be nice to have a canna as a ground cover in the very front of my beds with the caladiums? Here are a few pics. I will listen but it may take a lot for me to release this one to the public LOL.