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Clematis 'The Duchess'

Very large, flat or flattish, pale purple flowers shading to reddish purple to margins near base and from base to halfway up bar. Filaments and anthers cream; connectives greenish yellow.

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
Raised by:	Joe Link
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r2008 n2012
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	'Gillian Blades' x unknown
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 20cm Tepals: 6; 10cm long, 3.5cm wide, narrowly obovate but with basal half folded down to either side to give each sepal a spathulate look, gappy, with slightly wavy margins, rounded at tip but with a distinct apiculus, tip slightly recurved Leaves: ternate