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Clematis 'Blue Chip'

Small blue-purple flowers, tinged red. Yellow anthers on white filaments

Group:	Integrifolia group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	1.0 - 1.5 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
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by:	Yoshiaki Aihara
Country of origin:	Japan
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	fn2005
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	'Rising Star' x unknown
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 4-5cm Tepals: 4; broadly elliptic, blunt, half overlapping