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Clematis courtoisii 'Daiyu'

Small- to medium-sized, white flowers with partial, irregular, dark greyish purple streaking along some midveins, occasionally splaying at tip to give broken patch (and some tips instead with pale green cusp). Filaments, connectives and anthers dark greyish purple.

Raised from seeds of courtoisii collected from Tianmu mountain, Zhejiang Province, in 2012.

Named after Lin Daiyu, the heroine of "The Dream of the Red Mansions", a classical Chinese novel. Care must be taken not to confuse this with 'Evipo083' which has unfortunately been given the trade designation DAIYU.

Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	2.0 - 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.	May Jun
Raised by:	LF Li, Y Li, SA Wang, Q Wang, RT Yang & P Wang
Country of origin:	China
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r2014 n2015
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	Species
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 5-8cm Tepals: 6; 3.5-4.5cm long x 1.5-2.5cm wide, broadly elliptic, touching midway but sometimes gappy at base, margins very slightly wavy, long-pointed with acuminate to cuspidate tips slightly recurved