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Learn about 10 orchid flower colors, including blue, red, brown, and black, the types of orchids that produce them, and what they mean.
Prosthechea cochleata, commonly referred to as the clamshell orchid [1] or cockleshell orchid, is an epiphytic, sympodial New World orchid native to Central America, the West Indies, Colombia, Venezuela, and southern Florida. [2] It is also known as the black orchid in Belize, where it is the national flower. [3]
Erythrorchis cassythoides, commonly known as the black bootlace orchid, [2] is a leafless climbing orchid in the family Orchidaceae. It has long, dark brown to blackish stems and groups of up to thirty yellowish to greenish, sweetly scented flowers and is endemic to eastern Australia .
The genus name comes from the Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis), literally meaning "testicle", because of the shape of the twin tubers in some species of Orchis. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] [ 33 ] The term "orchid" was introduced in 1845 by John Lindley in School Botany , [ 34 ] as a shortened form of Orchidaceae .
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Gymnadenia rhellicani (common name: dark vanilla orchid [2] or black vanilla orchid [3] [4]) ...
Caladenia anthracina, commonly known as black-tipped spider orchid, [2] is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a ground orchid with a single hairy leaf and a single white or cream-coloured flower with red markings and black tips on the sepals and petals .
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The list of genera alone currently stands just short of 1000 entries. From a cladistic point of view, the orchid family is considered to be monophyletic, i.e. the group incorporates all the taxa derived from an ancestral group. The taxonomy of the orchids is explained on the page Taxonomy of the orchid family.