Just a quickie

Uff · May 2022

A friend has asked me if I know what the cause of this is on his clematis. I don't so thought I would ask you. It doesn't look like a bud. Doesn't know what variety of clematis it is and hasn't happened before he doesn't think. Any ideas please?

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AnniD · May 2022

Not sure, it might be Fasciation ?

Dovefromabove · May 2022

Looks like a bud to me … one of the multi-petalled ones like Duchess of Edinburgh.

If you look at the buds here, they’re slightly further forward than the one in your pic.

Marlorena · May 2022

..normal for some double ones, this is 'Belle of Woking'..

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Fairygirl · May 2022

I agree - it'll just be one of those 'very double' varieties.

Uff · May 2022

Thanks all, I'll put that to him and suggest that he keeps an eye on it and its progress.

Uff · May 2022

Just passed the info on to my friend and asked exactly how long it's been like that and he says about a month so I don't think it can be a bud but time will tell.

Fairygirl · May 2022

It's definitely a bud. If it's short of water, it may be struggling to open it though.

Uff · June 2022

An update on the strange bud on my friend's clematis. Taken today and barely moved since he saw it 5 weeks ago. Anymore thoughts on this please?

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Liriodendron · June 2022

https://www.rhs.org.uk/disease/clematis-green-petal

Do you think it might be this?

Uff · June 2022

I don't know Liriodendron. On the one hand it looks like a huge bud gone wrong but it isn't opening or at least very, very slowly, on the other might it be fasciation? If I can't come up with an answer I might ask him to perhaps leave it another week and then prise it apart to see what's inside.

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