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Clematis 'Katja Tellervo'

Medium-sized, semi-double, open bell-shaped flowers; inside predominantly deep purple, white in centre near base and along major veins; outside redder purple, scarcely white-veined and lacking basal patch, downy on margins. Filaments white, downy; connectives & (downy) anthers pale yellow. Seed-heads persistent.

Named after Katja Ylätalo, the registrant Juhani Räsänen's daughter.

Group:	Atragene 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
Pruning:	No pruning (Group 1)
Raised by:	Juhani Räsänen
Country of origin:	Finland
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r2008 n2015
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	I AM RED ROBIN 'Zorero' (s) x unknown (open-pollinated)
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 8cm Tepals: 4; 3.8cm long x 1.5cm wide, ovate-lanceolate, touching at base, margins slightly wavy and incurving towards tip, tip long-pointed and sometimes twisted. Staminodes numerous (20 or more), greenish white in central core but outer ones flattening back like narrow sepals, with similar colouration.