The Lost Sage of the Sierra Madre

Salvia darcyi has become common and cultivation due to how easy it is to root cuttings of Salvia and to the fact that plants are self fertile, yet no photos of it exist in habitat. Imagine how stoked I was to come across growing in a remote limestone canyon of the Sierra Madre in Nuevo León at 6,000 feet (1800 meters) with pines draped in Tillandsia Hunnemania fumariifolia and Brickellia laciniata.

Also appearing in this episode are the rare Eremosis obtusa - a Vernonia relative in Asteraceae - and Thelocactus buekii and Salvia keerlii. The habitat here is incredible, and definitely important to see for anybody who loves the flora of Texas, only a few hundred miles away.

Salvia darcyi was only described to science in 1996. Prior to now, it has never been filmed in habitat.



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