Flickr Finds: Black Plants II

Tuesday, we posted a look at common plants in uncommonly dark hues.

Today, it's lesser known specimens with truly black beauty, like the Black Bat above.

Closeup on the leaves of a Fagus sylvatica "Riversii" tree

The cute "Starling" Auricula

If Edward Gorey made sunflowers: The Black Knight scabiosa

Black calyces are darkly cheerful

Comments (7)

The Black Bat is scarily beautiful...

posted by pantzini on June 26th 2008 at 11:21am
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I don't like black flowers. I guess to me flowers are cheerful and bright and although 95% of my clothes are black I prefer my flowers to be the spots of colour in my place. Somehow the photos above remind me of spooky movies.

posted by Gallivant on June 26th 2008 at 11:42am
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I just bought Great Black Iris's

posted by parrishnut on June 26th 2008 at 11:54am
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I started a small project of blackish flowers several years back inspired by this website :http://web.archive.org/web/20001109030300/www.gothic.net/~malice/

I wasn't able to cultivate anything terribly exotic as the weather that summer was strange.
The black pansies did great though.
Here is a site that sells seeds for a variety of black flowers.

http://www.alchemy-works.com/black_flowers.html

Love that Black Bat!
Intoxicating.

posted by polychrome1 on June 26th 2008 at 12:47pm
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Some of these are downright scary, but I do love black flowers in general. Black irises rock.

posted by Lisa Hunter (Montreal) on June 26th 2008 at 1:48pm
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Gorgeous, all of them.

posted by nantarea on June 26th 2008 at 3:53pm
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Beautiful...Does anyone know if black roses actually exist??

posted by sofrigginsweet on June 29th 2008 at 6:13am
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