APHRODITE

• Height: to 4 ft. ( 150 cm )
• Flower color: Staminodes salmonpink,well-shaped flower.good colour combination with young bronze leaves which become green but retain dark midrib.
• Foliage color: Long,narrow leaves are dark,mid-green with light bronzing to main vein and apex with dark border.Stems purple-bronze.
• Comment: Winner of Royal Horticultural Society 'Award of Garden Merit' at the 2002 trials. A cultivar with the same name featured in the 1908-9 RHS trials, but without any award. It was not this cultivar and was described as having a red flower edged in yellow. Hybridised by P. Schmid.
• The picture taken by: Claines Canna - England