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Clematis 'Something Blue'

Large blue-purple flowers. Filaments blue-purple; anthers creamy yellow. This integrifolia form blooms in Japan much earlier than other such clematis.

Group:	Integrifolia 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.	Apr May
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by:	Tetsuya Hirota
Country of origin:	Japan
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	2007
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	Fukuzono x unknown
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 12-15cm Tepals: 5-10; broadly elliptic, overlapping up to two-thirds of their length, somewhat wavy-margined, tips cuspidate and slightly recurved