Fruit Salad Sage
Salvia dorisiana
Lamiaceae
Growth habit
Herbaceous
Perennation
Cultivated as annual
Native distribution
Honduras
Biocultural value
Velvety leaves release a fruity scent when touched.
Location
Source of plant
Unknown
Description
Perennial to 1m, shrubby. Stem freely branched, villous, leafy. Leaves 8-18cm, ovate, acuminate at apex, cordate at base often with lobes overlapping, serrate, petiolate, thin and papery, pubescent, glandular-punctate beneath. Verticillasters 2-10-flowered, in showy gladular inflorescence to 15cm; corolla 5-6cm, magenta, villous.
USDA Hardiness Zone
10
Special characteristics
tender perennial, fragrance