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Clematis 'Kawasaki'

Large blue flowers with a paler bar. Dark brown or purple-red anthers, white filaments. Named after the Japanses city where the raiser lives.

Group:	Late large-flowered group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	2.0 - 2.5 metres
Flowering period(s): Warning: the months here are approximate for the northern hemisphere: users south of the equator should add approximately 6 months so that July becomes January etc.	Jun Jul Aug Sep
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by:	Kazushige Ozawa
Country of origin:	Japan
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	b 1986
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	Star of India (Japanese type) x unknown
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 11-15 (-20)cm Tepals: 6-8, 6-8cm long, 3-4cm wide, deeply overlapping