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Clematis 'Cloudburst'

Medium to large flowers. Purple veins over a white ground, except near base (where sepals white), or along upper margins (where purple colour suffuses blade), or towards top of central bar (where veins stronger, red-purple); bar shows whiter in older flowers. Creamy yellow filaments with connectives and anthers dark purple.

Group:	Late large-flowered group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	2.5 - 3.0 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.	Jul Aug Sep
USDA zones: Warning: the zones given here are USDA zones for guidance only. Canadian zones are slightly different!	4 5 6 7 8 9
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by:	Szczepan Marczynski
Country of origin:	Poland
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r2004 ni2014
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	withheld
Other name(s):	'Starburst' (Marczynski) - not to be confused with 'Star Burst' ('RobloM') of Mitchell
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 10-12cm Tepals: 4-6; 5-6cm long, 2-4cm wide, broadly elliptic and overlapping in 6-sepalled fls (or rhomboid and gappy, with cuneate bases, in 4-sepalled), margins slightly wavy, tips sometimes cuspidate and slightly recurved