Clematis

Clematis is a small township in the Dandenong Ranges, 42 km south-east of Melbourne and 6 km east of Belgrave.

The first significant settlement at Clematis was O'Connor's Paradise Hotel (1880) at the junction of Wellington and Belgrave-Gembrook Roads. The place was known as Paradise until confusion with a place of the same name near St Arnaud caused residents to change to Clematis, an endemic creeper plant, in 1921. The Paradise Hotel remains a landmark.