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|familia=Lamiaceae
|familia=Lamiaceae
|genus=Salvia
|genus=Salvia
|species=castanea
|species=castanea
|taxo_author=Diels
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'''''Salvia castanea''''' is a herbaceous perennial sage discovered in the Yunnan Valley in China in 1904 by plant collector [[George Forrest]]. It also grows in Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. The plants used in horticulture today likely came from seed collected from a plant at 14,000 in Nepal, at the base of Mt. Everest. It grows 3 ft tall in the wild, and 1-2 feet in cultivation in Europe and the U.S. The few 1-1.5 in flowers grow in whorls on an inflorescence about 1 ft long. The name ''castanea'', which means 'chestnut colored', refers to the purplish-maroon flowers <ref name="Clebsch">{{cite book|last=Clebsch|first=Betsy|coauthors=Carol D. Barner|title=The New Book of Salvias|publisher=Timber Press|date=2003|page=66|isbn=9780881925609|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NM0iwB8GrQYC&pg=PA66}}</ref>
==Cultivation==
==Cultivation==
