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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:  2.0 - 3.0 metres
Flowering period(s):  Jul Aug Sep
Aspect: Any aspect
Pruning: Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by: Uno Kivistik
Country of origin: USSR/Estonia
Date raised:  r1984 f1986 n1988
Parentage:  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