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Clematis ochotensis 'Carmen Rose'

Medium sized, nodding, bell-shaped, purple to purplish-pink flowers with clear red-purple veins. The staminodes are creamy-white, tinged pink at the tips. Raised from seed of ochotensis sent from Kamchatka by Eric Hulten. In early catalogues it was distributed as platysepala var rosea.

Group:	Atragene group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	2.0 - 2.5 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.	Apr May Jun Sep
Aspect:	Any aspect
Pruning:	No pruning (Group 1)
Raised by:	Magnus Johnson
Country of origin:	Sweden
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	1950
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	Selection from ochotensis
Other name(s):	platysepala var rosea; 'Carmen Rose'
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 10-12cm Tepals: 4; 3.5-7cm long, 1.5-2.2cm wide, oblong-ovate, pointed, margins recurved