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Re: Pineapple sage

At 12:09 AM 10/14/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I bought a plant this spring that was called pineapple sage.  I have grown it
>once before, but never with the result I had this year.  It is a nice foliage
>plant that grew all summer and if you bruise a leaf you get a pineapple
>fragrance.
>
>It is now about 3.5 feet tall with a 3' spread and covered with red tubular
>flowers--many florets per stem.  The hummingbirds have mostly migrated out of
>here by now, but a straggler was visiting this plant today.
>
>Does anyone know the genus and species on what I've described?  I doubt it is
>winter hardy.  
>
>Bill Lee
>Zone 6--Cincinnati, Ohio
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It is not winter hardy.  The flowers are edible and delicious.  Botanically
it's Salvia elegans. Margaret
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