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Clematis 'Kozo'

Large, bowl-shaped becoming flatter, silvery-lavender flowers with darker edges and bar fading to white (first photograph). In warm conditions, or with late summer flowers, much whiter (second photograph). Yellow anthers, tan-gold connectives, creamy yellow filaments. Raised by Brewster Rogerson from seed sent to him by Kozo Sugimoto in Japan who had hybridised it.

Group:	Early large-flowered 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.	May Jun Sep Oct
Pruning:	Light prune (Group 2)
Raised by:	Brewster Rogerson
Country of origin:	USA
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	h1997 rn1998 i2007
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	patens (self-pollinated)
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 14-18cm Tepals: 6-8; 7cm long, 4.5cm wide, blunt Leaves: ternate