Salvia Officinalis
Sage contains vitamins A and C. It’s also rich in vitamin K, which aids the body in clotting blood. Anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antimicrobial, antidementia.
The height of these plants varies from 20 to 40 cm (maximum 60 cm). The biological form is camefite suffruticosa (Ch suffr), they are perennial and woody plants at the base, with wintering buds placed at a height from the ground between 2 and 30 cm (normally the herbaceous portions dry annually and only the parts remain alive woody). The whole plant is gray- tomentose with an aromatic smell.
In warm areas it is an evergreen shrub.
The roots are hard and robust of the collated type.
The aerial part of the stem is very branched and woody at the base. The surface is covered with patent hairs . The stems have a quadrangular section (due to the presence of collenchyma bundles placed in the four vertices)
The leaves are 2 to 2 cauline in opposite arrangement (each whorl is rotated ninety degrees with respect to the one below). The lamina is petiolate with lanceolate forms ; it is obtuse at the apex, narrow at the base and crenated on the edge and penninervie ribs. The consistency of the leaves is felt-like to the touch and have a greyish-green color and a scent of characteristic freshness. Petiole length: 10 – 15 mm. Size of the leaves: width 1 cm;
length 2 – 3 cm.
The flowers are hermaphrodite , zygomorphic , tetracyclic (with the four fundamental whorls of the Angiosperms : calyx – corolla – androecium – gynoecium ) and pentamers (each whorl has 5 elements). Length of the flowers: 17 – 30 mm.