How to tell Salvia Divinorum from regular Salvia.

I have a regular Salvia plant in my backyard which (I'm pretty sure) is not active. It has flowers, and I tried to chew a leaf once and got nothing (I'm thinking of trying alcohol extraction to maybe 8 leaves later.)

Anyways, there is another Salvia plant down the street (the lady that owns the Morning Glory has the Salvia) and it has NO flowers. I was wondering if you can tell whether or not the plant is S. Divinorum just from the lack of flowers? If you can, which is Divinorum, flowers or no flowers? Thanks.

 

a salvia divinorum plant should have purple flowers

like this



however a young or male plant may not have flowers

 

Okay, thanks

 

just curious what color of flowers does the one in your backyard have?

 

white

 

Twizz:

There are thousands of strains of the Salvia genus.

You can tell Salvia blanketyblank apart from Salvia divinorum by many things ... the leaf size, the leaf colour, the leaf shape and texture, the flower colour, the flower shape, whether it produces seeds ...

Look it up on http://www.sagewisdom.org/

 

The most recognizable thing on SD is it's square hollow stem which has wavy corners and the velvetlike sheen on its leaves.

 

i'm pretty sure that ALL mint/sage plants have square, hollow stems, and as hikaru pointed out there are thousands of salvias. there is no "ordinary" or "regular" salvia plant. but keep in mind Salvia divinorum is native to VERY specific remote regions of mexico, and there is little chance anyone will be growing it outdoors in ontario. there are many, many garden plants in the salvia genus, and TONS of them are often simply referred to as "salvia."

either way, only salvia divinorum contains the psychedelic salvinorin-a. many, if not most, salvias contain thujone, however it would take VERY large amounts to get any kind of "effect" from it. salvia splendens is rumored to be psychoactive to some degree, but there is no hard evidence to back this up, and it does NOT contain salvinorin-a. even if it WAS salvia divinorum, chewing one leaf is not going to make you trip.

theres a reason almost all salvia users smoke extracts with many times the potency of normal leaves.

 

I'm no sage collector or expert botanist, but I've never seen a mint or sage species other than SD that has a square stem.
Smoking one leaf of SD will make you trip unless you are specially resistant to its effects.

 

That's definitely incorrect:

I've smoked several leaves of plain SD and not tripped. And I definitely know how to smoke it the right way.

One leaf is NOT a lot.

 

a square stem is one of the characteristics that helps destinguish these types of plants. not to say others can't have square stems, but i'm pretty damn positive ALL mints and sages do. EVERY one that i've seen does. take a walk through a botanical gardens sometime or something, i dunno....