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ginger or canna?
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Posted by gloria2008 8 (My Page) on Wed, Oct 12, 11 at 9:01
| how can you tell the difference between a canna lily and a ginger? or any of the wide leaf lily that looks like ginger? |
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RE: ginger or canna?
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| Bump. Sorry on one was able to help you. |
RE: ginger or canna?
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| What I would suggest is that the ginger plant has more of a spreading habit, while the canna shoots straight up. The way the leaves grow from the stem is also different but I can't describe. Try googling some pics. and compare them. It will be difficult unless you have flowers or tubers. |
RE: ginger or canna?
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| First, neither are true lilies - both are in families completely unrelated to the Liliaceae despite what their common names may allude to. Second, "ginger" is a common name applied to multiple genera including Hedychium, Globba, Kaempferia, Alpinia, Zingiber, Curcuma and Asarum, among others. Foliage shape, flowers and growth habit differ widely between these so impossible to make any meaningful comparisons. I'm not sure how to explain it any more directly but it is hard to mistake a canna for any type of ginger - they just don't bear any real resemblance other than an alternate distichous leaf arrangement. |
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