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Clematis patens 'Kanasashi'

Medium sized, semi-double, flowers, outside with a red-purple midrib; inside white or pinkish white, often with distinct, pale pink bar where midrib shows through (particularly on outer sepals). Filaments white or pale pink; connectives maroon; anthers white. A form, apparently of wild patens, native to Kanasashi Japan Shizuoka Prefecture. Its natural habitat has now been lost to development.

Group:	Early large-flowered group
Pruning:	Light prune (Group 2)
Country of origin:	Japan
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	A selection, apparently of wild patens
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 10cm Tepals 20+; broadly elliptic, overlapping, often with a blunt, somewhat frilly, retuse, emarginate apex