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

Robison Herb Garden

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