Description
Sage Golden – Salvia officinalis icterina
Hardy evergreen culinary sage with beautiful and bright golden and green leaves.
Needs warm sunny and well drained soils to thrive, can be grown in pots or beds.
- Many culinary uses in savory dishes slightly milder than normal sage officinalis
- Medicinal properties used historically for digestion, memory, cleansing – antibacterial, smudging. The Latin drived name Salvia – ‘salveo’ translates – ‘to heal’
- Rich in folklore – prizes by Romans an Greeks in ancient times for cleansing and preserving, in Medieval times it was used in cleansing and whitening teeth. It is long associated with wisdom.
NOTE; any herbal and direct use of plants and plant material for medicinal purpose should be done so upon direction of a medical herbalist
