Attached Link: http://www.rosenut.com/gallery/roses/Black%20Jade.jpg

**sigh**....there ARE black roses, but they aren't really BLACK, but a deep, deep red (as I've said in my first post). They are only ***CALLED*** black. A lot of different flowers also have a black version - Irises come to mind and I know this because I HAD one. Not black - dark, dark red. Same as the rose.

Picture at the link (pictures are hard to come by folks - I've looked).

FWIW, the "black" roses look purply red to my eye. I didn't mean they were purple. I meant that they were red with a touch of purple. If I'd meant purple, I'd said red-purple because purple would have been the main color then (take blue-green for instance - it's still green).

There are different levels of darkeness too between the different varieties: some are quite light and some are very dark (like the pic at the link). The dark was what I was going for.

No completely black rose exists in nature that I know of. Black is just the name here, not the actual color.

Laurie