Canna generalis Cleopatra Polianthes the worse you treat butterfly

the worse you treat butterfly weed

especially where large masses of weed-excluding masses are desired

as well as during fairly extended droughts

each color irregularly weaving into each other

to only 18" tall

Canna generalis Cleopatra Polianthes the worse you treat butterflyWe couldn't believe our eyes when they fell upon this canna at the Kunming Botanic Garden in China in 1996. Large purple blotches wove their way through the green leaves and into the flower stalks. If the flowers form on the purple leaf side, they are red and from the green side of the leaf, they are yellow sometimes from both you get the picture. This unstable and highly variable chimera turned out to be an old but hard to find cultivar called Canna