The flowers are just about ready to open. Another Mexican beauty.
Salvia Sessei
This species can easily form a small tree, as can some forms of regla and pubescens.
I know that I sent you seeds of this.......but flowers do not resemble sessei!!! But gorgeous anyway!
Robin.
These are from the seeds you sent marked salvia sessei maybe I think they were marked. We will have to wait till the flowers open and than the guessing games begin.
mmmm if it isnt sessei than I wonder what it is. Here is a pic off its flower.
On examining the foliage, it looks like S. regla. See attached images for floral spike and individual flower
My plant came from the collection at the Huntington Library and Botanical Garden.
Maybe its a hybrid of sessei. Note the swollen and colored calyx.
In the wild, this sage is called `Sangre de Toro'. with its dense display of pendulous flowers. dripping down, someone fancifully suggested that a bull got into a nasty battle with a top predator and got its blood spattered all over the trees.
Hi Richard,
Here are a few more photos for you, the foliage on the bottom off the salvia and the flower stem, the flowers are coming up the stem amongst the foliage, it is unusual. This does not look like the Salvia Regla that I have.
The bottom half off this salvia, it is not very old, maybe just 4 months.
Maybe its a hybrid of sessei with regla, which might make it similar to S. pubescens. Is the plant currently growing rapidly, making its big spring push? If so, this might explain some of the different morphology of the leaves
Yes the plant just went into growth overdrive, I have another 2 that are coming along well as well. They all germinated at the same time.