Purple Leaf Form
This is a new introduction to the UK, collected by a botanist from Cally Gardens in Scotland. The underside of the foliage is purple.

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"Salvia macrophylla is a perennial undershrub native to Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. In Colombia it is a rare plant, found growing on roadside banks in the south, at elevations from 4,600 to 7,900 feet.

The plant has many decumbent and upright stems reaching 3.3 feet high and spreading into a large bush. The triangular-hastate leaves are 3.9 to 7.9 inches long and 3.1 to 5.9 inches wide, and violet on the underside. The leaves have many glands, and are sticky and aromatic. The corolla is blue, 0.98 inch long, with the upper lip smaller than the lower, growing on 5.9 to 9.8 inches branches."

Taken from wikipedia's page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

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