# Black orchid

Black orchid or Black Orchid may refer to:

## Books and comics

* Black Orchid (comics), a DC Comics miniseries created by Neil Gaiman
* Black Orchid (character), a character from DC Comics
* Black Orchids, a Nero Wolfe double mystery by Rex Stout
** "Black Orchids" (novella), the first story in the above
* Black Orchid (Killer Instinct), a character in the Killer Instinct video game series

## Film and television

* Black Orchid (film), a 1953 film with Ronald Howard
* The Black Orchid (film), a 1958 film with Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn
* Black Orchid (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who serial
* Black Orchids (film), a 1917 American silent drama film

## Music

* The Black Orchid (nightclub), a Chicago night club from 1949 to 1959
* Black Orchid (band), an Australian gothic metal band
* Black Orchid (album), 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"
* "Black Orchid", a jazz tune written by Neal Hefti
* "Black Orchid", a song by Avantasia from The Mystery of Time
* “Black Orchid”, a song by Blue October from The Answers

## Plants

* Any member of several species of genus Bulbophyllum, commonly called "black orchid"
* Calanthe triplicata or Australian Black orchid
* Coelogyne mayeriana, a species of orchid native to Southeast Asia
* Coelogyne pandurata (Black orchid), a species of orchid native to Borneo
* Coelogyne ovalis, a species of orchid native to Indochina
* Coelogyne usitana, a species of orchid native to the Philippines
* Coelogyne xyrekes, a species of orchid native to Southeast Asia
* Cymbidiella falcigera and Cymbidiella humblotii (Black orchid), species of orchid native to Madagascar and Île aux Nattes
* Cymbidium canaliculatum (Queensland black orchid), a species of orchid native to northern and eastern Australia
* Dendrobium johannis var nigrescens, a species of orchid from Australia
* Disa cornuta, a species of orchid from South Africa
* Dracula benedictii, a species of orchid from Colombia
* Dracula minax, a species of orchid from Colombia
* Dracula ubangina, a species of orchid from Ecuador
* Dracula vampira, a species of orchid found on the slopes of Mount Pichincha in Ecuador
* Fredclarkeara (Truly black orchid), a hybrid genus consisting of the genera Catasetum, Clowesia, and Mormodes
* Grammatophyllum wallisii, a species of orchid from the Philippines
* Liparis nervosa (Black orchid), a species of orchid native to Japan and China
* Masdevallia rolfeana (Black orchid), a species of orchid native to Central America
* Maxillaria schunkeana, also known as Brasiliorchis schunkeana, a species of orchid native to Brazil
* Maxillaria variabilis, a species of orchid native to Central America
* Monnierara (Black orchid), a hybrid genus consisting of the genera Catasetum, Cycnoches, and Mormodes
* Ophrys insectifera, a species of orchid from Europe
* Paphiopedilum
* Phalaenopsis mannii, a species of orchid native to Nepal and China
* Prosthechea cochleata (Black orchid), the national flower of Belize that is also known as the Clamshell (or Cockleshell) orchid
* Stanhopea tigrina var. nigroviolacea or Stanhopea nigroviolacea, a species of orchid from Mexico
* Stelis immersa (Black orchid), a species of orchid ranging from Mexico to Venezuela
* Trichoglottis atropurpurea (Black orchid), a species of orchid native to the Philippines