Salvia Voctory Blue

[Merkaba]

So yesterday I go to a nursery with my GF and look for some pot to transplant a few plants when I came across what was labeled as 'Salvia Victory Blue' which  had flowered those beaitufull purple flowers.  It looks like Salvia Divinorum flowerd.  Are they the same plant with the same efects?

Thanks for your help.

[Jupe]

Probably not.  there are hundreds of salvia strains for the home garden.

It should have square stems. Some nurseries have sold it as "diviners sage"

[DrYRHead]

Victoria Blue Sage is a smaller strain of Mealy-cup Sage(Salvia farinacea).



They are pretty, and experiments indicate that they have sedative effect. However, they are not hallucinogenic.

[Veracohr]

A store I walk past every day carries a bunch of Salvias with different colored flowers, and I like them a lot so I always pick some up. One I got this year has dark purple flowers, and it has square stems. Without the ridges that are on the corners of Salvia Divinorum's stems, but square nonetheless, so S.D. isn't the only Salvia with square stems.

[Jupe]

Thanx Veracohr for correcting me.  I guess flowers are a better way, (or a tag from the grower) for a newbie to tell, unless they have somebody who has seen it before.   when I got my first little scraggler plants from the G. Stranger....I thought I had been ripped off....they didn't look much like what I expected...had to wait a few months to sample a crumb. :roll: