canna indica

Girón was previously an important center for the cultivation of Canna indica.

They typically contain hota (Canna indica) seeds inside them.

Canna indica var.

The provincial flower is the Indian shot (Canna indica), and the finger banana is another provincial symbol.

The larvae feed on Canna indica, Calathea zebrina, Musa spp., and Hedychium coronarium.

The larvae feed on various Marantaceae species, including Canna flaccida, Canna indica, Canna edulis and Canna lutea.

According to the BBC "The story goes that during the Indian Mutiny of the 19th century, soldiers used the seeds of a Canna Indica when they ran out of bullets."

LEAD: AMERICA'S long, if now somewhat cooled, love affair with cannas seems to have begun in 1777 in southern Louisiana, when William Bartram, the noted botanist and plant explorer from Philadelphia, first spotted the native species he called Canna indica (actually Canna flacida).