Indian shot
कर्दळതോട്ടവാഴकर्दळ
Canna indica L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- 48 cm
Cannaceae
Also called Small-flowered canna, Canna, Indian Canna, Wild Canna
Formerly Canna achiras, Canna altensteinii, Canna amabilis, Canna ascendens, and 92 more
When it flowers
Flowers June to February in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS full; NC State Extension full, part
- Height
- 1.5 m to 2.5 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 1.5–2.5 m; NC State Extension 1.5–8.2 ft
- Spread
- 46 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; NC State Extension 1.5–3 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange, redRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -8.6 °C (USDA zone 8b)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS -5 °C; NC State Extension -12.2 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Arabian jasmineFlowers March to May, when this does not
Barbados gooseberryFlowers March to May, when this does not
Black-eyed Susan vineFlowers March to May, when this does not
Blue dazeFlowers March to May, when this does not
Bush Morning GloryFlowers March to May, when this does not
Calabur treeFlowers March to May, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Bandera española, Platanillo rojo, Achira
- myn
- chank'ala
- root
- chi'quichi, cóyol, izuat coucamo
- Chinese
- 美人蕉, 紅花蕉, 姜芋
- Italian
- canna d'India
- Finnish
- intiankanna
- Czech
- dosna indická
- Indonesian
- Bunga Tasbih
- Japanese
- ダンドク, ショクヨウカンナ, アカバナダンドク
- Dutch
- Indisch bloemriet
- Russian
- Канна индийская
- French
- Balisier d'Inde
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Canna indica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.