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Indian shot

Canna indica

हिन्दी: कर्दळ

Indian shot (Canna indica) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name
Canna indica
Hindi name
कर्दळ
Family
Cannaceae, order Zingiberales
Group
Plant

Bright red lilies of the garden.

  • Spot it Broad leaves and red-orange flowers.
  • Home Gardens and wet edges.
  • Food web Sunbirds and bees visit the flowers.
  • Why it matters Feeds sunbirds and bees, and its dense growth holds wet soil.

Read more: Canna indica on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 1 verified record of this species on iNaturalist in 2020, in Jaipur.[20]

Sources

  1. Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
  2. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  3. Wikidata (Hindi labels for species) (database). Open data, used for Hindi common names.
  4. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
  5. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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