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Clematis 'Suo'

Large, pale pink flowers with paler margins and darker bar. Filaments greenish yellow at base, shading to red-purple above including connectives); anthers greenish yellow. 'Suo' was a Japanese province, now part of the Yamaguchi Prefecture.

Group:	Early large-flowered group
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
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by:	Tetsuya Hirota
Country of origin:	Japan
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	2003
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	florida var sieboldiana x unknown
Other name(s):	'Suoo'
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 13-15cm Sepals: 6-8; broadly elliptic, overlapping at base, long-pointed