A Daffodil is Still an Orchid by Any Other Name

Ipsea speciosa, the daffodil orchid, is a rare wild orchid found in the hills of Sri Lanka and southern India. Our two ladies here are equally rare.

A mystery maiden used her expert acting and disguise skills, along with her superhuman physical abilities, to become the caped crimefighter known as the Black Orchid. Assuming various civilian identities such as Paula Porter and Matilda Moocock*, she exposed evil in various locales on Earth-One, defeating criminal enterprises from within.

Female professional wrestler Daffy Dill possessed superhuman strength and endurance along with a temperament that led her to have dozens of adventures all across America during the mid-1940s on Earth-Two. Many of there tales began with her manager Deke Parsons’ poor judgement.

Black Orchid even inspired Ronne Kuhn, who aided her in capturing a criminal cartel of fake Black Orchids. Equipped with state of the art technology to replica the original’s superpowers mechanically, they were no match for the original! This gang’s Earth-Two counterparts were Sacred Order of the Crimson Crystal, who Black Canary brought to justice.

* Black Orchid was such an expert in the art of disguise and deception, that she fooled fellow heroes Phantom Stranger and Madame Xanadu into believing she had alternate origins as different women.