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My own experience with three different microphylla cultivars and two hybrids is that they all have varying fragrances, none of which I would exactly call "mint-like". They are all classic "salvia-like" fragrances, for lack of a comparison. But that's just my own original research and nose :-) . The problem with adding "mint-like" is that you haven't given a reference for it. The book that is referenced at the end of the paragraph, and which supplies all of the information in the paragraph, only says it's a "pronounced, pleasing" fragrance.
In the UK, S. microphylla is often said to smell of blackcurrants (a search for "Blackcurrant Sage" yields a number of nurseries selling it under this name). The cultivars I grow smell more like this to me than of mint, which I think of as a much 'sweeter' smell. I'll add a referenced note to the article.
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My own experience with three different microphylla cultivars and two hybrids is that they all have varying fragrances, none of which I would exactly call "mint-like". They are all classic "salvia-like" fragrances, for lack of a comparison. But that's just my own original research and nose :-) . The problem with adding "mint-like" is that you haven't given a reference for it. The book that is referenced at the end of the paragraph, and which supplies all of the information in the paragraph, only says it's a "pronounced, pleasing" fragrance.
In the UK, S. microphylla is often said to smell of blackcurrants (a search for "Blackcurrant Sage" yields a number of nurseries selling it under this name). The cultivars I grow smell more like this to me than of mint, which I think of as a much 'sweeter' smell. I'll add a referenced note to the article.
Peter coxhead (
talk)
09:44, 20 August 2010 (UTC)reply