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Clematis 'Xuan Zi'

Medium sized, flat or flattish, violet flowers. Filaments white becoming yellow-green; connectives yellow-green; anthers light greenish yellow. Seed-heads persistent.

The name means 'Gorgeous Violet' in Chinese.

Group:	Early large-flowered 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 Jun
USDA zones: Warning: the zones given here are USDA zones for guidance only. Canadian zones are slightly different!	7 8 9 10
Raised by:	Q Hu, J Zheng, R Qian, X Zhang, X Ma
Country of origin:	China
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r2016 n2021
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	'The President' (s) x 'Angelique'
Further detail:	The registrant gives the pollen parent simply as 'Angelique'; we suspect that this must be ANGÉLIQUE 'Evipo017'. Flower diameter: 8.7-13.2 cm Sepals: 6 or 8; 4.3-6.6 cm long × 1.4-3.5 cm wide, broadly elliptic to elliptic, overlapping, wavy-margined, tips rolled inwards to form long points