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Clematis 'Krakowiak'

Small flowers which open light reddish purple with a deep pink bar and which age to a purple-pink with a red bar, shading from purple-red at the base to vivid red at the top. Outside, pale purple. Yellow anthers on greenish filaments. Named after a Polish folk dance.

Group:	Viticella group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	2.5 - 3.0 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:	Szczepan Marczynski
Country of origin:	Poland
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r2000 n2009 i2011
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	Unknown
Other name(s):	PINK MINK in the US
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 5-8cm Tepals: 4; 2-4cm long, 2-3cm wide, rhomboid, rugose, blunt, gappy, margins undulate, tips recurved