Thanks for the link, Kathy. I took a photos of Maxillaria schunkeana
benched at one of our meetings this year. This particular clone looked
black, but as Reiner observed, it is in actual fact very dark red when seen
close up.

Perhaps the one Dan has at Hanging Gardens is even darker. Eric do you have
a photo of Dan's plant?

Cheers

John



"K Barrett" wrote in message
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Eric will have a better picture of this one soon, but here's a 'black'
orchid

http://www.aospacificcentral.org/PnO...maxschunk.html

K Barrett

"danny" wrote in message
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I've got a few pictures of this and another closely related plant, and
those lips are extremely dark. Even with a closeup flash they don't
really show color. I'll have to take another look sometime, they will
probably be a super dark red under close inspection.
-danny

"AusDigi" wrote in message
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Ooh yes, very black. Do you have a close-up of the labellum? I was
wondering
because the Black-tongue Fingers (Caladenia congesta) labellum isn't
actually black when you look at it closely but a really dark red.