Here's a few from this summer

Sold to me as Snaggletooth, which it turns out is not a registered Daylily



Velvet Thunder


Blackthorne



Black Arrowhead


Storm Shelter


Bela Lugosi


Round Midnight



Ossabaw Island. Another daylily that was sold to me that turns out to be unregistered


Tiger Blood
I'm counting the ones where a big chunk of the color is taken up by a large dark eye...

Beautiful!!

chalyse said:Gorgeous! For anyone with a blooming plant, how does that rich color fare with a long, hot, sun-beaten day?

My Holy Moses doesn't fade much, nor does it "melt." It gets full afternoon sun. While it's registered as "black red with a black halo," it seems black purple most of the time. You notice the halo most on days when it's looking more red (top right pic).


Edit: I forgot my other darks. I agree with @touchofsky, Sir Modred is very dark!


So is Caviar...


and so is the mysteriously unregistered "Maya Purple" I got at Lowe's decades ago. I guess the starburst onto the midribs kinda wrecks it as a dark flower, though.

Great Thread, I have a better photo of Buddy's Black Lady than I have in the database, might add this one later or see if sue will let me delete the old one. Great pics everyone!

Why delete the old one. If it shows the correct color and is a correct representation of how the bloom looked, then I like the idea of showing the bloom can have different looks.

What a difference light and temperature make! Here is Black Arrowhead at the beginning of July


Here is Black Arrowhead now

back @ Virginiarose
Susan ! We missed you a whole lot. Glad to see you posting. Larry is right about leaving your earlier database picture in my opinion.

JimSaskatoon said:Here is what I think is a very dark seedling of mine. First time bloom today. It looks black in the garden and really got my attention.
Jim

That's very black! It's striking. Do you have something in mind to cross it with?

EdBurton said:A few blackish daylilies growing in E central WI
Black Wolf

Buddy's Vampire Lady, this is one of the darkest if not darkest I grow

• Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Buddy's Vampire Lady')
• Uploaded by EdBurton

Dad's Black Gold, Slow increase for me, can't get it to set a pod

Greg Trotter, dark purple

Men in Black

Bonibrae Witches and Warlocks

• Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Bonibrae Witches and Warlocks')
• Uploaded by EdBurton

I-656 (Buddy's Vampire Lady x Dad's Black Gold)

I-736 (Black Wolf x F-38 (Vampire Bat x Wild Hair)

You are growing some beauties and making nice babies. I've been into the darker ones with teeth the last two years. If you would ever want to trade either of the first two for anything I have, I would be interested. In any case, my wish list just got bigger. Thanks for posting these.

These are my two "blackest" seedling from this year. I have a long way to go.
Seedling 20-159 (two photos)

Seedling 20-233


They both have 17-128 as one of the parents. It looks as though I need something even more black with teeth to use with these.

Hazelcrestmikeb said: back @ Virginiarose
Susan ! We missed you a whole lot. Glad to see you posting. Larry is right about leaving your earlier database picture in my opinion.

Thank you Mike! Yes, Larry is right, I also had second thoughts so I did not delete it.

These are wonderful, my favorites so far are MEN IN BLACK & SUPERSTITIOUS.
Here is an older one from the database called LAURA HARWOOD.

Thanks for the greetings, I was looking through some pictures and found some dark ones just let me know if they qualify or not.

Hemerocallis 'Midnight Amulet'


Hemerocallis 'Bluegrass Memories'


Hemerocallis 'Huckleberry Yogurt'



Hemerocallis 'Tropical Nights'

They look great to me. Nobody is keeping score anyway. We are eager for blooms.

daylilly99 said:
You are growing some beauties and making nice babies. I've been into the darker ones with teeth the last two years. If you would ever want to trade either of the first two for anything I have, I would be interested. In any case, my wish list just got bigger. Thanks for posting these.

I only have a few fans of each, neither Black Wolf or Buddy's Vampire Lady appear to be fast increasing plants.
Thanks for liking the kids.
I do know there is a listing for Buddy's Vampire Lady on the auction now.

Ed - thank you. I must have missed it on the auction as I only now looked.

Are these two as black in person as they look in your photos or does it depend?

Just one sad Black Arrowhead

God Of Wine

I am enjoying this thread, which I just noticed was started in 2012. Glad to see it pop up again because it has some amazing black beauties! Most of my darker shaded daylilies are not what I would call really black. But here are a few of the darkest ones I have.

Salieri - 7am on June 20 and at 11am on June 30 after a rain.


African Dawn - 6am on June 29 and at 8am on July 2.


Crooked Smile - 5:30am on June 18 and at 5pm on June 23