Hi Damn, I'm emailing you! would love some seeds, take a look at my list! Maryann

I have been finding the COTW search engine not to be entirely accurate. Twice I used it to search, once for shade tolerance & the other for a No ID & found errors in both. For example, a very common Will Goodwin is not being listed as having white/gold/yellow anthers with either blue/purple tepal. If you search w/o the anther color he shows up with blue as a tepal. So I wouldn't bank that all the possible cultivars would be listed in your search.

Well, you may be a good candidate for the vile weed. My aunt (from Washington) was here last year when it flowered, and was admiring it. I sent her photos of it absolutely all over the woodland near the lake, and the areas around a creek. I think I convinced her it was evil (though it may not have been in her dry cold climate). I mentioned that fact to her (just in case). The other thing is that sometimes it smells sweet, other plants smell VILE and attract flies, it's rather variable. Hee, maybe it's a survival tactic though...there's more flies in the world than bees. If no one gets you cuttings, i can probably provide in spring. I don't think in my heat, trying to ship cuttings now would be good. And fall would be a bad time to root them. I'd rather send you an entire plant...but it's awfully hard to find a small one..maybe because they grow so fast.

As floral noted, there is no single cultivar of clematis named Italian Clematis..........but it IS a common name sometimes applied to ALL C. viticella varieties, as they originate from/are native to Italy and Spain. All are vigorous, heavy and long flowering vines considered to be free of/resistant to clematis wilt, In addition to Perle d-Azur, Emilia Plater looks very similar to the photo in question.