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  • COMMON NAME: Indian shot, African arrowroot, Edible canna, Purple arrowroot, Sierra Leone arrowroot.
  • ARABIC: موز فحل
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Canna indica L.
  • SYNONYMS: Canna achiras Gillies ex D.Don
  • FAMILY: CANNACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/319130-2 Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Low to medium salinity tolerance. Ornamental, some hybrids are cultivated.

Herb-like perennial plant, usually dense, erect, with a creeping rootstock, 1-3 meter high. Leaves large, entire, lanceolate-ovate to narrowly elliptic, 30-50cm
long and 10-20cm wide, light-green with purple tones. Inflorescence a raceme, flowers paired or solitary, large. Sepals 3, free, oblong-ovate variable in colour. Petals 3, connate at the base, red to yellow, linear, erect. Fertile stamen solitary, petaloid, basally adnate to the style. Ovary inferior. Fruit a capsule. Seeds numerous, tiny, globose, black.

Flowering in the spring.
Cultivated, is sun-loving and adapted to hot dry weather. Tolerates moderate salinity.
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