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Clematis 'Keqing'

Medium, flat or flattish flowers, Purple-blue with a brilliant purple bar. Filaments white; connectives and anthers dark purple-red.

Keqing, was one of the twelve beauties of Jinling in "A Dream of Red Mansions".

Group:	Early 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.	Apr
Pruning:	Light prune (Group 2)
Raised by:	L F Li, S A Wang, Y Li , P Wang
Country of origin:	China
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r2015 n2021
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	Diamond Ball (s) x unknown
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 7-8 cm Tepals: 8-9; elliptic to broadly elliptic, overlapping, wavy-margined, rounded at tip but with a small apiculus, tip slightly recurved, outside of sepals with downy hairs