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Canarina canariensis

Botanic Family

Campanulaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Vatke

Common Names

• Canary Bellflower

Geographical Habitats

• Canary Islands - Spain

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• dies to ground level in summer

Flowering Times

• Sept-Mar Late Winter to late Spring

Fruiting Times

Scrambling tuberous herbaceous petiole twiner with tuberous roots, fleshy hollow stems to 3m. Irregularly toothed leaves to 100mm x 90mm. 60mm orange, red-veined solitary & axillary flowers, calyx with 6 lobes, corolla with 6 pointed lobes, Sweet sticky fruit orange to black.

Milky sap can be irritant

Berry, roots & shoots edible, ornamental

Further References

• E & M 1970
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• P & R 1997
• RHS A-Z
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• Kew