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Clematis 'Titipu'

Small, pink, bell-shaped flowers, the tepals yellow-green on the inside. The form was grown from seed donated to the British Clematis Society from Japan (wrongly labelled as texensis) and so was named after the imaginary Japanese setting for the comic opera The Mikado (or The Town of Titipu) by Gilbert & Sullivan.

Group:	Viorna 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
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by:	Roy Nunn
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	rf2003 n2004
Other name(s):	crispa 'Titipu'
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 3cm Tepals: 4; 3.5cm long, 1.3cm wide, lanceolate, cream margins, crenulated, tips strongly recurved, pointed