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(First upload on October 11 2018. Last on December 26 2023) [ 日本語 | English ]

Cannaceae Juss. (カンナ科)






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Engler's syllabus (エングラー体系)

Order Zingiberales (ショウガ)

Family Cannaceae (カンナ/ダンドク)
consisting of 10 species in one genus

Canna L. (カンナ), canna or canna lily


About 50 species in the world
Lifeform: large tropical and subtropical perennial herbs with a rhizomatous rootstock
Flower: three sepals and three petals
Leaf: broad, flat and alternate
Introduced to Japan
C. edulis Ker Gawl. (ショクヨウカンナ)
C. indica L. (ダンドク), wild type of C. × generalis

var. flava (Roscoe) Baker (キバナダンドク)
var. warszewiczii (A. Dietr.) Nb. Tanaka (ムラサキダンドク)

C. orchiodes L. H. Bailey (イタリアンカンナ)
C. × generalis L. H. Bailey (ハナカンナ)

Canna × generalis in Hokkaido


Canna indica hybrid
Hanakanna (ハナカンナ), canna or canna-lily
Lifeform: perennial herb
Chromosome number: 2n = 18
Use: gardening → cultivars
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ST1 ST2 ST3
ST4 ST5 ST6
[1-3] on a small flower garden under a street tree in front of Fuji Women's University, Sapporo, on October 9 2018. [4-6] under a street tree on the opposite side of Hokkaido University Botanic Garden on September 30 2023.

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