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Clematis 'Hime-no-irodori'

Large, purple-red flowers, inside with a bar white at the base becoming purple towards the tip, outside red-purple with a mainly white bar tinged red-purple. White filaments, grey-red anthers.

The name means "colour of a princess" in Japanese.


Group: Early large-flowered group
Raised by: M Watanabe
Country of origin: Japan
Date raised:  b2006
Parentage:  Hybridization involving 'Doctor Ruppel' and 'H F Young'
Further detail: Flower diameter: 13.5-14.5cm
Tepals: 8; 7cm long x 3.5cm wide, elliptic, overlapping half, tip shortly cuspidate