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Clematis 'Mrs Mavis Darlington'

Large, flattish deep mauve-pink flowers with white background showing through in centre, especially around margins of bar. Different flowers on the same plant can be single, semi-double or double in roughly equal proportions. Brown anthers on yellow filaments. Fruit heads persistent, plumose. Named after the raiser's wife.

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 Aug Sep
Pruning:	Light prune (Group 2)
Raised by:	H Darlington
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	n2010
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	Unknown
Further detail:	Flower diameter: to 18cm Tepals: 8 (single flowers); broadly elliptic, overlapping, tips blunt and slightly recurved; 20-30 staminodes fully double sepaloid, deep purple-pink with white bar, narrowly elliptic, gappy at base, aristate tip Leaves: