clemdetail -

Clematis 'Senhime'

Large, semi-double, pink-red flowers. Filaments white; connectives sometimes purple-tipped; anthers pale yellow. 'Senhime', which means a rose-colour, is also the name of a famous Shogun's wife.

Group:	Early large-flowered group
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
Pruning:	Light prune (Group 2)
Raised by:	T Hirota
Country of origin:	Japan
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	1996
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	Unknown
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 15cm Tepals: 6-12; elliptic, overlapping halfway or more, with slightly wavy margins, longpointed with tips attenuate to cuspidate and often slightly twisted