Kanna is a flower that is always associated with the fluttering flight of a hummingbird, tropical heat, a light holiday mood, sea breeze.
One has only to plant this luxurious flowering reed in your garden and on your balcony, as the site immediately changes: it becomes more colorful than a banana plantation, more luxurious than royal flower beds. Tropical lush beauty is low maintenance, which is why gardeners love this delightful plant. Even the absence of aroma does not spoil it: canna is a flower that does not cause allergies in anyone. However, even experienced gardeners do not know everything about this wonderful plant. Here is just one fact. During excavations, seeds of this plant were found. They lay in the vessel for almost five hundred years, but, being planted in the soil, they sprung up and delighted scientists with their unearthly beauty.
Kanna - edible flower
Cannes are native to America (South and Central) and India, where to this day there is a cult of flowers. Exotic large flowers were brought as a gift to the Gods, and they also helped the Indians, Indians and Chinese to survive. In these countries, cannes are bred today, the rhizomes of which are cookedfor humans, and the roots and leaves are fed to animals. The names and photos of flowers that can be deliciously prepared can be found in special reference books. There are also recipes for cooking dishes based on the canna flower. But that's not all.
Kanna - healing flower
The African shepherds were the first to find out that eland saves from bad mood. They chewed canna leaves. Today it has been established by chemists: there are so many alkaloids in the stems of plants and their leaves that the flower is a real antidepressant. Only it can not be tried without the permission of a doctor. Firstly, not all cannas are medicinal, and, secondly, they can cause poisoning if used improperly. The psychoactive properties of canna are used by pharmacists in some countries.
Kanna - a flower marked by fire and blood
Kanna is a "pipe". This is how the name of this exquisite flower is translated. There is a legend that he was born from a mixture of fire and blood. In far, far away times, two tribes of the same Indian or South American country signed a peace treaty inscribed on papyrus. For years the tribes lived in peace and harmony. But when a young and zealous leader came to power, he did not comply with the terms of peace, killed another leader, and threw the papyrus into the fire. The bloody papyrus flared up, but did not burn out, but turned into a flower, the bright petals of which on one side are the color of a flame, and on the other, the color of a bloody papyrus.
Kanna is a flower unlikeothers
Today there are dozens of varieties of this plant. Some of them are almost completely exterminated. Others continue to adorn the wild jungle forests of India, the forests of China, America, and the tropical thickets of other countries. Still others follow the person everywhere, independently sprouting in different places. And they can be not only red. Yellow, scarlet, orange, even two-tone - these are all cannes. Flowers (photos prove this) evoke a romantic mood, bring joy, make you be kinder and more gentle.
