Archives for June, 2008

Musella Lasiocarpa (Chinese Yellow Banana)

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  • June 19, 2008

About Musella Lasiocarpa

Musella lasiocarpa is a great plant for a tropical effect in cooler climate zones. It is not a true banana, but a banana relative, and has a smaller, shrub-like form. It can produce a large, lotus-shaped, waxy yellow flower that will remain in bloom for six months.
The Chinese yellow banana is endemic to [...]

Canna ‘Tropicanna’

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  • June 4, 2008

‘Tropicanna’, a.k.a. Canna ‘Phaison’, is by far one of the most exotic-looking cannas. Each leaf of Canna ‘Tropicanna’ is a combination of dramatic colors which seem to glow in the sun. New foliage emerges in rich burgundy tones, and stripes of red, pink, yellow and green fan out from the vivid central vein as it [...]