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Black is the colour of the CDU, the most relevant conservative Party in Germany.The Greens of Baden-Württemberg (the german state in question) have many weird and conservative tendencies, from a strong approval of homeopathy to a favor of "politics behind closed doors". Cem Özdemir, the green primary candidate for new prime minister, was secretary of agriculture with the former federal government (traffic light coalition) and in that role fought tooth and nails to keep environmetally harmful state subsidies for farmers, fighting a red herring instead of fighting for farmers against food corporations (those farmers protests were a clusterfuck and nothing was actually and substantially resolved, but different discussion).
There is a saying in Germany: "The BaWü Greens are more conservative than the Schleswig-Holstein CDU." This saying can also be reversed ("The Schleswig-Holstein CDU is greener than the BaWü Greens.")
Schleswig-Holstein (SH) is the northernmost state in Germany, Baden-Württemberg (BaWü) with Bavaria one of the two southernmost states, and both SH and BaWü are governed by a coalition of CDU and Greens. However, in SH the CDU is the senior partner in the coalition providing the prime minister with the Greens being in the junior role while in BaWü the roles are reversed (up to now the Greens are senior providing the prime minister and CDU is junior), but the government politics in SH are by far greener and more progressive in BaWü.
Another moniker for the Baden-Württemberg Greens is "the CSU of the Greens." The CSU is the CDU's sister party in Bavaria (there's no CDU in Bavaria), but even more populist and right wing than the main party.