Tropicanna Gold (Canna 'Mactro') - orange flowers, illustrated plant cardIllustration

Tropicanna Gold

Canna 'Mactro'

Tropicanna Gold blooms from July through September.

Bloom calendar
Bloom time
Jul–Sep
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Hardiness
Zones 7–10
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Sun
Full sun
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Water
High water
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Mature size
5 ft × 2.5 ft
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Type
Bulb
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Months here are Northern Hemisphere months; in the Southern Hemisphere, shift them by six months.

Growing Tropicanna Gold

Plant it in full sun. It prefers high water. It is hardy in USDA zones 7–10. Expect it to reach about 5 ft tall and 2.5 ft wide at maturity, in roughly 1 year (a house reading).

Pets

Lists differ and none is complete. If a pet eats a plant and seems unwell, call a veterinarian or a pet poison helpline.

No toxicity note is on file for Tropicanna Gold. That is not a clearance: check its safety for people and pets before planting.

Verification
What was checked

Nine facts were checked against named botanical sources, each recorded beside the sources that carried it: mature height and spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, the trait tags, and years to mature size, which rests on a recorded house rule where no publisher states one and is marked so. Soil, diseases, pests, toxicity and the plant's own names have not yet been read for this plant, and its trait tags are the ones a feature uses rather than every word a page prints. Each fact above carries its own mark. The planting, spacing and size sections are derived from these checked facts by a fixed rule, not checked separately, and the plant type is the library's own classification.

See the 7 sources it was checked against

When to plant Tropicanna Gold

Tropicanna Gold is a summer bulb planted in spring: get it in after the last frost, once the soil has warmed, March or April in zone 8, the middle of its hardy zones 7 to 10. It is hardy in zones 7 to 10, where it can stay in the ground over winter; colder than zone 7, lift and store it before the ground freezes. Expect flowers from July to September.

Month-by-month timing for your zone is on the planting calendar; if you garden near zone 8, the middle of this plant's hardy range, start with zone 8 in March. Derived from the plant's category, zones and bloom months plus typical zone frost dates, not checked separately.

How big does Tropicanna Gold get?

Illustration of Tropicanna Gold drawn to scale beside an adult5 fttall5 ft 7 inan adult2.5 ftwide
About 5 ft tall and 2.5 ft wide at maturity: about as tall as an adult.

See Tropicanna Gold in a garden plan: the planner shows it in 3D beside everything else you add, growing toward this size over the years.

Where these facts come from

Tropicanna Gold's height, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color and trait tags were checked against 7 published sources on October 20, 2026. Each one is linked below with every fact it carried, which can include a fact this page still marks as not yet checked, because a source carrying a value is not the same as the value being held to the standard. Facts not in that list, and the planting, spacing and size sections, are not covered by these sources.

  • devilmountainnursery.comDevil Mountain Wholesale Nurseryheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun and bloom months and color
  • plantguide.lowes.comLowe'sheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun and bloom months and color
  • shop.tomscreeknursery.comToms Creek Farm & Nurseryheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun and bloom months and color
  • Chicago Botanic Gardenhardiness zones, sun, bloom months and color and trait tags
  • Plant Delights Nurseryheight, hardiness zones, sun and bloom months and color
  • RHSRoyal Horticultural Societyheight, sun, bloom months and color and trait tags
  • tesselaar.comAnthony Tesselaar Plantssun, water, bloom months and color and trait tags

How the checking works, and what each standard covers, is on the verified plants page.

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