Deep cherry-purple flowers with a satin sheen. Contrasting cream filaments with purple anthers. Raised in 1965 at the State Nikitsky Botanic Garden, Crimea by A N Volosenko-Valenis and M A Beskaravainaja. The name means 'Cosmic Melody' and commemorates the first flight of the Russian cosmonauts. A hybrid of 'Gipsy Queen' x 'Jackmanii Alba'.

Group:	Late large-flowered group
Approximate height:	3.0 - 4.0 metres
Flowering period(s):	Jul Aug Sep
Aspect:	Any aspect
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by:	A N Volosenko-Valenis & M A Beskaravainaja
Country of origin:	USSR/Ukraine
Date raised:	r1962 n1970
Parentage:	'Gipsy Queen' x 'Jackmanii Alba'
Other name(s):	'Kosmiczeskaja Melodija'; 'Kosmitcheskaya Melodija'; COSMIC MELODY
Further detail:  Flower diameter: 10-14cm Tepals: (4-) 5-6, 5.3cm long, 3.3cm wide, rhombic, gappy, wavy margin Click here for the text of an IClS article about this clematis Database entry: 482
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	M A Beskaravainaja
	A N Volosenko-Valenis