Sage
Salvia officinalis — The wise leaf
- Botanical name
- Salvia officinalis
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Parts
- leaf
- Origin
- Mediterranean
- Tradition
- Mediterranean
- Native range
- Mediterranean basin
- Grows in
- Garden
- Compound classes
- terpenes, volatile oils, phenolics
- Flavour
- Warm, aromatic and slightly peppery with characteristic Mediterranean sage notes — pleasantly herbal; familiar culinary identity
- Habitat
- Mediterranean native
Plant and fungal knowledge in the language of craft and tradition — not medical advice. Fungai Art, small-batch extracts.