Pineapple sage (Salvia elegans) is a tender perennial plant with tubular red flowers and an attractive scent to the leaves. The scent has been compared to pineapple, while others have compared it to the odor of a martini. It produces numerous erect leafy stems and flowers in the late autumn. The red flowers are attractive to hummingbirds. Image File history File links Salvia_elegans0. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class: this name is formed by replacing the termination -aceae in the name Magnoliaceae by the termination -opsida (Art 16 of the ICBN). ... Families See text The Order Lamiales is a taxon in the asterid group of dicotyledonous flowering plants. ... Genera Many, see text Ref: Delta 2002-07-22 Lamiaceae, or the Mint family, is a family of plants in about 180 genera and some 3,500 species. ... Species see List of Salvia species Sage is a term used for plants of the genus Salvia of the mint family, Lamiaceae. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Martin Vahl Martin Vahl (October 10, 1749 - December 24, 1804) was a Norwegian botanist. ... A Red Valerian, a perennial plant. ... Clivia miniata bears bright orange flowers. ... In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ... Binomial name Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. ... See: Martini (cocktail) - a popular cocktail. ... Fall redirects here. ... Genera Many, see text. ...
Pineapple sage does not normally produce fertile seed in cultivation. Commercial growers produce new plants asexually, through cuttings. Plant cuttings are a way of vegetatively (asexually) propagating plants. ...
Older literature refers to this species as S. rutilans.
Pineapple sage leaves are edible and can be steeped in hot water to make an herbal tea.
Pineapplesage grows naturally in oak and pine scrub forests at elevations from 8,000-10,000 ft (2,438-3,048 m) in Mexico and Guatemala.
Hardiness: Pineapplesage is a semiwoody subshrub in USDA zones 9-11, and an herbaceous perennial, dying to the ground in winter but resprouting in spring, in zones 8-9.
Propagation: Pineapplesage is rarely grown from seed.
Sage is one of the last plants to leaf out in my gardens in spring, with new growth emerging along the nodes on the woody stems.
Sage has long been held to be associated with longevity, wisdom and memory and it was spoken of in prose and herbals as such.
The healing properties of sage are varied indeed with each culture using it for different problems and to identify all its uses would easily lead to a major dissertation so I will focus here on some of her more widely accepted and common uses.
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