Hakonechloa macra SunFlare PP 27734 Greece Australia botanical garden

Australia botanical garden

which arose as an open pollinated seedling of Canna 'Wine and Roses'

three-petalled flower in mid-April (NC)

emerges in mid-to late June with 30" tall

Hakonechloa macra SunFlare PP 27734 Greece Australia botanical garden(aka: Hakonechloa 'HABsf1007') Hakonechloa 'SunFlare' is the newest selection of the deciduous Japanese forest grass, arriving from British Columbia, Canada, where it was discovered by nurseryman, Lyle Courtice as a dwarf, compact mutation of Hakonechloa 'All Gold'. We're not sure what else mutated, but it has been a shockingly good grower in our heat and humidity, where it forms an 18" tall x 2' wide clump of bright gold foliage that takes on