Canna Compacta

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Canna compacta

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Liliopsida
Order:	Zingiberales
Family:	Cannaceae
Genus:	Canna
Species:	*C. compacta*

Binomial name

Canna compacta
Rosc.

Canna compacta is a species of the Canna genus, belonging to the family Cannaceae, a native of the Caribbean and tropical Americas. Introduced to England from South America in 1820 (Johnson's Gardeners Dictionary, 1856).

It is a perennial growing to 2m. It is hardy to zone 10 and is frost tender. In the north latitudes it is in flower from August to October, and the seeds ripen in October. The flowers are hermaphrodite.

Synonyms

Canna 'Robert Kemp'
Canna 'Tiki Torch'
Canna 'Tiki Tourche'

Taxonomy

In the last three decades of the 20th century, Canna species have been categorised by two different taxonomists, Paulus Johannes Maria Maas from the Netherlands and Nobuyuki Tanaka from Japan. There are differences in their categorisations. While Maas considers C. compacta to be a synonym of C. indica L., Tanaka's studies have revealed that C. indica can be clearly distinguished from other taxa, making it a separate species.

Canna compacta Rosc.

Medium sized clump of lush green foliage, crowned by spikes of small, dark, orange, erect flowers.

Canna compacta subsp. cinabina

A vigorous Canna species, medium size to 130cm (4'); broad, light-green foliage, with distinctive darker and lighter green veins throughout; orchid-like blooms, erect bright golden yellow with bright orange-red specks; an upright vase-like profile. Starts blooming in early spring when the plant is only 30cm (12”) tall, and continues non-stop until frost. Native to Colima, Mexico.

References

Cooke, Ian, 2001. The Gardener's Guide to Growing cannas, Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-513-6
Johnson's Gardeners Dictionary, 1856
Tanaka, N. 2001. Taxonomic revision of the family Cannaceae in the New World and Asia. Makinoa ser. 2, 1:34–43.

Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Plantae
Haeckel, 1866^[1]

Divisions

Green algae

Chlorophyta
Charophyta

Land plants (embryophytes)

Non-vascular land plants (bryophytes)

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Magnoliophyta

Classes

Magnoliopsida - Dicots
Liliopsida - Monocots

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms comprise the two extant groups of seed plants.
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Liliopsida is a botanical name for the class containing the family Liliaceae (or Lily Family). It is considered synonymous (or nearly synonymous) with the name monocotyledon. Publication of the name is credited to Scopoli (in 1760): see author citation (botany).
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Zingiberales
Griseb.

Families
See text

Zingiberales is an order of flowering plants. The order has been widely recognised by the taxonomists, at least for the past few decades.
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Cannaceae

Genus: Canna

Species
19 classified species, see list below

Canna (or Canna lily, although not a true lily) is a genus of nineteen species of flowering plants.
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binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is also called binominal nomenclature (particularly in zoological circles), binary nomenclature (particularly in botanical circles), or the binomial classification system.
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Caribbean (Dutch: Cariben or CaraÃ¯ben, or more commonly Antillen; French: CaraÃ¯be or more commonly Antilles; Spanish: Caribe
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hermaphrodite is an organism that posses both male and female genetalia.^[1] In many species, hermaphroditism is a common part of the life-cycle, particularly in some asexual animals and some plants.
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For the science of classifying living things, see .

Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification. The word comes from the Greek τάξις, taxis, 'order' +
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Paulus Johannes Maria Maas (born 1939) is a botanist from the Netherlands and a specialist in the flora of the neotropics. Maas has identified and named about two hundred fifty plants from the Burmanniaceae, the Costus Family (Costaceae), the Gentian Family (Gentianaceae), the
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Motto
"Je maintiendrai" (French)
"Ik zal handhaven" (Dutch)
"I shall stand fast"¹
Anthem
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Nobuyuki Tanaka is an economic botanist at the Tokyo Metropolitan University and at the Makino Botanical Garden in Kochi prefecture, Japan.

Tanaka is an expert on the family Cannaceae, and in 2001 published a revision of the family Cannaceae in the New World and Asia (Ref 1).
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This is a gallery of named canna cultivars. Names of cultivars are regulated by the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, are registered with an International Cultivar Registration Authority (ICRA) and conform to the rules of the International Society for Horticultural
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