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Clematis 'Kanda-gawa'

Medium sized, deep pink flowers (from dense veining over pale ground) with a slightly bronze bar. Filaments and anthers pale yellow; connectives pale green.

The name means "Kanda River" in Japanese, and is named both after the river which crosses west to east through Tokyo and a popular folk song.

Group:	Viticella 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.	May
Raised by:	T Hirota
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r2014 n2017
Parentage: (s) = seed parent
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 10cm Tepals: 6; elliptic to obovate, overlapping halfway but slightly gappy at base, with slightly wavy margins, and rounded at tip but with a pronounced apiculus