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Clematis 'Anni Irina'

Medium- to large-sized, dark purple flowers with red-purple midveins, ageing to dark blue or blue-violet with paler bar; outside grey-downy. Filaments yellowish, maturing to white; connectives greenish white; anthers pale yellow. Seed-heads persistent.

Named after Anni Hacklin, the granddaughter of Kirsi Kettunen who named the cultivar.

Group:	Late large-flowered group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	1.0 - 1.5 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.	Jul Aug Sep
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by:	Juhani Räsänen
Country of origin:	Finland
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r2011 n2014
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	'Carnaby' x 'Venosa Violacea'
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 12-13cm Tepals: 6; 6cm long x 3.5cm wide, elliptic to broadly elliptic, overlapping at first but becoming more gappy with age, with finely ruffled margins, tip acuminate with a distinct apiculus but often slightly recurved