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Black Orchid is an American comic book written by Neil Gaiman with art by Dave McKean. It was published by DC Comics as a three-issue limited series from December 1988 to February 1989, and was later reprinted in trade paperback form. Black Orchid follows two girls, Flora and Suzy, who awaken in a greenhouse.
The Black Orchid (nightclub), a Chicago night club from 1949 to 1959; Black Orchid (band), an Australian gothic metal band; Black Orchid, a 1962 jazz album by the Three Sounds; Black Orchid, a 1987 Hawaiian album by Peter Moon Band "Black Orchid", a song by Stevie Wonder from Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants"
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]
A black orchid flower (Prosthechea cochleata) The national flower of Belize is the black orchid (Prosthechea cochleata, also known as Encyclia cochleata). The national tree is the mahogany tree (Swietenia macrophylla), which inspired the national motto Sub Umbra Floreo, which means "Under the shade I flourish".
When designing Black Orchid, artist Tony DeZuñiga took inspiration from Cymbidium canaliculatum, a plant with dark purple petals, and Black Condor.He stated that he "read the character description and [recalled that] in the ’40s there was this character called the Black Condor, but [since] that was a male superhero, [he] took some ideas and revised [it] to a female form."
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The son of former Belizean Prime Minister Said Musa, Yasser Musa was born in Belize City.He was educated in Belize City at St. John's College Junior College.After he graduated in 1989, he debuted with a collection called poems.
Black Orchids is a Nero Wolfe double mystery by Rex Stout published in 1942 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. Stout's first short story collection, the volume is composed of two novellas that had appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine: "Black Orchids" (August 1941, abridged as "Death Wears an Orchid")