Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Can anyone name a flower than can be either white or black?

Black could be traded for red (But I personally don't want roses)

Can anyone name a flower than can be either white or black?
Unlike other flowers, black varieties seem to plentiful in the iris family. Bearded iris varieties include 'Hello Darkness' in a near obsidian purple-black color. Bearded Iris like 'Midnight Oil鈥? 鈥楳en in Black鈥?, and 'Hello Darkness' achieve as near to obsidian as a purple-black color can get. For a white try Iris germanica Alba, which is a white form of the species. 'Arctic Age' is a classic white bearded iris.


The Columbine 'Nora Barlow' has double blossoms but it lacks the usual spurs. Aquilegia vulgaris is a deep maroon and white spurred variety known as 'Magpie' or 'William Guiness'. For white I grow the minute Aquilegia flabellata 'nana alba'. This one is very small so needs a prominent position in the rockery. Larger plants are the Aquilegia v.鈥楥lementine White鈥?








'Queen of Night' dwarf tulips are a deep velvety maroon, as is 'Black Diamond'. Supposedly, when tulip breeding was an art several centuries ago, there were black tulips. However these are the closest I've seen commercially available. I've also grown a 'Black' Parrot tulip, which is deep purple and has contorted petals, and 'Black Hero' a double tulip, which is derived from 'Queen of Night', and has flowers resembling a peony. I've also seen a listing for the 'Black Swan Tulip'.





There isn't any such thing as a black sunflower but there are several options for dark colored ones in burgundy shading to brown. 'Floristan' and 'Velvet Queen' are often mentioned. Italian White sunflowers or Helianthus annuus are available.





Salvia discolor, has spikes of dark purple-black flowers and silvery foliage so appear black %26amp; white. Salvia argentea has white felted foliage and small, white, hooded flowers.


Batchelor's Buttons comes with one of the darkest blossoms known as 'Black Ball' or 'Black Boy'. I grow that with the 'evergreen' black lily turf Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens'. White bachelor's buttons can be found in mixed seed packets.





Ornamental Sweet Potato Ipomoea batatas 'Blackie' has black leaves and stems. Ipomoea alba are also available with white flowers.


Rudbeckia occidentalis 'Black Beauty' looks as though someone plucked all of its petals, leaving only a black cone with a golden band around it. 'White Swan' has a white corolla around a greengold center.


One black blossom I haven't found yet is from from Graham鈥檚 hellebores in England. There are several Hellebore orientalis hybrid cultivars ranging from dark red plum to indigo blue-black. I've seen lists including 'Alberich', 'Andromeda', 'Ballard's Black', 'Black Knight', 'Castor', 'Pollux', 'Nigricns', 'Philip Ballard' and 'Sorcerer'. For white there is 'White Lady"





The Black ***** Willow comes from Japan. The catkins are so dark that they appear black against the red twigs. The running bamboo Phylostachys nigra has nearly pitch black culms. There is even a black and gold primrose cleverly called 'Black and Gold', which has a yellow eye at the center of the nearly black petals hat are again edged in gold.
Reply:Tulips come in black and in white.


Roses do come in black and in white.
Reply:orchids, anthiriums, hibiscus,plumeria
Reply:Tulip!





Also some Lilys are black.
Reply:A rose...there are black roses %26amp; white roses...
Reply:rose


tulip


carnation
Reply:a fox glove! then when a fox glove dies it is black?
Reply:There are some dasie varieties that are black to dark brown
Reply:Black tulips are beautiful and I think they come in white, too!
Reply:Tulip *pops the p*
Reply:spray paint ...


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