Garg ji and Gurucharanji: Recently the Kol Bot Garden had planted several cultivars... we visited... not photographed since Canna is so common in West Bengal... a few flowerheads were similar to what you just showed...
Top tropicals site shows something close to your picture ... and named it Canna X generalis Fire Red , it at URL: http://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/canna_indica.htm Regards, Usha di ------------ On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com>wrote: > ... guessing it to be a garden cultivar of *Canna indica*. > Regards. > Dinesh > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:48 PM, promila chaturvedi < > landdes...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> This Var. of Canna blooms in my house also. >> Promila >> >> ------------------------------ >> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:41:08 +0530 >> Subject: Fwd: [efloraofindia:62346] Commelinales & Zingiberales from >> Delhi: Cannaceae, Canna-a for ID from Delhi >> From: jmga...@gmail.com >> To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com >> CC: dinesh.va...@gmail.com; mani.na...@gmail.com; tabi...@gmail.com; >> jnurs...@gmail.com; hsb...@gmail.com; swamy_c...@yahoo.com; >> landdes...@hotmail.com; microminipho...@gmail.com; singh...@gmail.com >> >> >> Forwarding again for Id assistance please. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: *Gurcharan Singh* <singh...@gmail.com> >> Date: 8 February 2011 10:12 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:62346] Commelinales & Zingiberales from Delhi: >> Cannaceae, Canna-a for ID from Delhi >> To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> >> >> >> Commelinales & Zingiberales from Delhi: Cannaceae, Canna-a, looking like >> C. indica but with mottled perianth >> for ID from Delhi >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& >> eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged >> alphabetically & place-wise): >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use >> them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: >> http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1680 members & >> 75,000 messages on 31/7/11) or Efloraofindia website: >> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database >> of more than 5000 species) >> >> >
