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anna maria
 
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cristina wrote:

> anna maria wrote:
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>>I posted on the Italian food newsgroup and discovered that this plant
>>is a sage! I have never seen it so big, but apparently few varieties
>>of
>>sage of this type come from Southern America. One of the posters said
>>she has a sage plant with leaves up to 8 inch long. There is a recipe
>>for fried sage leaves in Italian cooking and she said this is the best
>>variety to use for it.

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> I have the large leaf sage in my orto and it looks nothing like the plant in
> the picture. I'll see if I notice something like it at the market next
> Wednesday but it could be specific to Ropme. I will also ask one of my
> friends who is a food dfanatic in Milano if she knows of it.
>


From the answers I understand that there is a problem with the picture.
In fact the resolution was not very good and the leaves were not very
clear. I re-published that same page with 2 pics: one the full one that
can give an idea of the proportions, the other a detail of the plant at
the maximum resolution I have.

http://www.annamariavolpi.com/misterious_plant.html

May load very slowly if you have dial-up. I am investigating with
botanicat sites and I hope this will help. Now I am getting VERY
courious. I may have to ask my sister that lives in Rome to go there
again and see if she can het some info.

Ciao,

Anna Maria

PS. It looks like a sage plant.

http://www.annamariavolpi.com/page28.html