n., The ornamental cannas (Canna indica 🌐, forms and hybrids), large tropical American herbs, with large oval or narrow leaves and large red or red and yellow flowers. The round black seeds are worn in leis and are also placed in fruit shells of the laʻamia for hula rattles. Cannas are both cultivated and wild in Hawaiʻi.
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Ornamental canna (Canna indica). (NEAL 263.) See Plants: Uses.
Ornamental canna (Canna indica), a large tropical herb native to tropical America. Its round black seeds called liʻipoe are used in leis and placed in shells of the laʻamia, fruit of the calabash tree, for hula rattles. The leaves are used for wrapping food and the plants themselves as ornamentals. (NEAL 263.)
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