Pulsegleaner
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I've had it on good authority that there is no such thing as a "brown" flower in the floral industry.
There are bronze flowers but never suggest to a client that brown flowers will be in his or her bouquet ...
Steve
"Chocolate" seems acceptable as a term too.
As I said, there are very rare, the same way that "true" black flowers (as opposed to really, really dark purple) are rare. I think there may be something called Chocolate Soldiers that is chocolate brown (and smells like chocolate too)
As for true black in a purely technical sense it does not exist (as there is no black pigment) However the current front runner is some sort of shrubby gentian relative that grows in Mexico which is functionally black (as in it absorbs everything including far and infrared and ultraviolet). Close runners up include things like some of the pansies, a carnation, some kinds of fava beans, Andean sage and so on.