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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):  | May Jun |
| USDA zones: | 7 8 9 10 |
| Pruning: | Light prune (Group 2) |
| Raised by: | Q Hu, J Zheng, R Qian, X Zhang, X Ma |
| Country of origin: | China |
| Date raised: | r2016 n2021 |
| Parentage: |
'The President' (s) x 'Angelique' |
| Other name(s): | None known |
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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 Database entry: 4391 | |