canna lilies
cannaceae latin

The lines are painted, the canna lilies watered.

"It could be nostalgia for adventure, or for sun and canna lilies all year round.

Awards, galas and honorary doctorates; orchids, canna lilies and roses.

Why water luxuriant canna lilies and fast-flowering, even faster-fading, roses, trained on ropes to make living swags around the croquet lawn?

The Victorians were also partial to bold or exotic foliage, Mr. Davis said, like elephant's ear caladium, castor bean and canna lilies.

The farmhouse stands back from a blacktop, two-lane road, a two-story antebellum white clapboard house that rises on a plain field that is red with canna lilies.

It housed exotic plants like tobacco, canna lilies, mangold, bananas, artichokes and rhubarb and was praised by explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

We pass a field of sugar cane, a tumbledown church, a medical centre, a rum shop called De Valley Pub Wine Bar and a garden overrun with red canna lilies.

Canna lilies are dropping their blooms, and if I move quickly I can get the stalks of cinnamon-colored pods before they mature to brown and pop open to release their seeds.

On Perry Street some neighbors created a street garden, the sidewalk a colorful bounty of daisies, canna lilies, sunflowers and a glorious weed called detura, whose large white blossoms each last for only a day.

Larvae have also been found feeding on Paspalurn conjugaturn and Zoysia pungens, but also on various ornamental plants such as Canna lilies and Anthuriums, where it scrapes holes in the leaves.

Beside the court a bed of yellow canna lilies, with leaves the colour of red cabbage, is being doused by another retainer, this man with a little ornament, beaded like the doily, in one of his ear lobes.

In 1928, the Astrid Avenue, which contains spectacular display of canna lilies of various colors, was established on the eastern side of the gardens in memory of a visit by Princess Astrid of Belgium.

Taking advantage of the Southern California climate, Mr. Morse created a sort of jungle lagoon in his own backyard, building a natural swimming pool with a thatch-roof palapa and a regeneration zone filled with tropical foliage like Madagascar palm and varieties of canna lilies.

In striking contrast are the smooth, sloping lawns along Queen Astrid Walk, studded with beds of canna lilies, crotons with leaves in brilliantly colored patterns, bougainvillea and a variety of flowering trees, among them amherstia nobilis, periodically covered with cascades of coral-colored blossoms.

We had our first whiff of the jasminelike scent of osmanthus, a native tree that was almost the only plant flowering at this season aside from canna lilies and masses of blazing Mao-red salvias that were set out in plastic pots all over China to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic.

The garden, which the guests would see only for a moment when they walked the short distance from their cars to the front door or if they happened to glance out the window while it was still light enough, was polished and composed, birds of paradise and tightly wrapped canna lilies, banks of lamb's ear and emerald fern.

Canna is the only genus in the family Cannaceae.

Tanaka is a species of the Canna genus, belonging to the family Cannaceae.

Taxonomic revision of the family Cannaceae in the New World and Asia.

Plant families that originated in the Neotropic include Bromeliaceae, Cannaceae, and Heliconiaceae.

Plant families where physical dormancy occurs include Anacardiaceae, Cannaceae, Convulvulaceae, Fabaceae and Malvaceae.

- Species boundaries in Canna (Cannaceae): evidence from nuclear ITS DNA sequence data.

Canna discolor also known as Achira in Colombia is a species of the Canna genus, belonging to the family Cannaceae, found naturally in the range from South Mexico to Colombia, widely introduced elsewhere.