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Clematis 'Ben's Beauty'

Medium to large, nodding, bell-shaped, purple-red flowers with a white margin. Inside strongly flushed red-purple at the base of the sepals, shading, through red-purple veins over a white ground, to white at the margins and tip Filaments and anthers cream. Fruit heads persistent. Named after the late Ben Clifton, who selected it.

Group:	Atragene group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	3.0 - 4.0 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.	Apr May
Pruning:	No pruning (Group 1)
Raised by:	B Clifton
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r c1996 n2011
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	koreana (or koreana hybrid) x unknown
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 12cm Tepals: 4; 7cm long, 4cm wide, overlapping and touching at base, gappy above, ribby, wavy-margined, long-pointed, with tips sometimes slightly recurved Leaves: Leaves biternate, dark green, with margins irregularly toothed