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Clematis 'Roelie'

Bell-shaped, nodding, very pale purple flowers with vivid violet veins. Green-yellow anthers and filaments. Fruit heads persistent. Unusually pale foliage. Named for Roelie van der Meulen a Dutch clematis enthusiast.

This clematis is not the same as the large-flowered hybrid raised by Brian Collingwood, tentatively named "Roelie", illustrated in The Clematis 2007.

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.	Aug Sep
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by:	Ton Hannink
Country of origin:	Holland
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r2006 n2010
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	Betty Corning x unknown
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 4-5cm Tepals: 4-6; 1.5-2 cm long, 0.8-1cm wide, gappy, margins wavy and irregularly cut, tip recurved