About Canna flaccida Salisb.
Canna flaccida Salisb. is an aquatic Canna species with narrow, glaucous blue-green leaves. It produces attractive large, lightly scented canary yellow flowers that grow in clusters at the top of long stalks. The flower lip has a wavy shape. Uniquely among all members of the Canna genus, this species produces flowers that emerge in the evening and then wither in the heat of the following day; all other Canna species open early in the morning and their flowers last at least one full day. It grows as a marginal aquatic plant, found in still or slow-moving water up to approximately 15 cm (5.9 inches) deep.
