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Clematis 'Tentel'

Medium sized, pinkish lavender to rosy-violet flowers, deeply textured and with a paler bar. Greeny-yellow or yellow anthers on whitish filaments. Name taken from the Estonian nursery rhyme: "Entel, Tentel, Trikatrei, Uhsti, Kaaru, Kommerei".

Group:	Late large-flowered group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	2.0 - 3.0 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.	Jul Aug Sep
Aspect:	Any aspect
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by:	Uno Kivistik
Country of origin:	USSR/Estonia
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r1984 f1986 n1988
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	Seedling of 'Jubileinyj-70'
Other name(s):	viticella 'Tentel'
Further detail:	Flower diameter: (5-) 10-11cm Tepals: 6; 5cm long, elliptic or rhombic, overlapping, margin toothed and crimped