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Image from Flore des Serres 1853-4

Clematis 'Monstrosa'

Single or semi-double, white flowers tinged or spotted green. Yellow stamens. Usually there is a ring of stalked simple or ternate leaves just below the flower, sometimes almost white. This form was apparently introduced from Japan by von Seibold in 1836 as C bicolor monstrosa

Group:	Early large-flowered group
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.	May Jun
Raised by:	Van Houtte
Country of origin:	Belgium
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	f1854
Other name(s):	bicolor monstrosa; 'Bicolor Mostrosa'; monstrosa; patens var monstrosa; patens 'Monstrosa'; azurea monstrosa
Further detail:	Tepals (single form): 6-7; lanceolate, tapered at base, pointed.