How to grow sage in China? (I)

As the customs may bar a live plant from entering the country, I

would need to find it within. First, what’s the Chinese name for the

common sage?

 

Google translated sage as 鼠尾草. Baidu added 可做調料.  So far, so good.

 

Then Wikipedia showed the herb’s scientific name as Salvia officinalis.

 

Baidu 百科, however, said 鼠尾草’s latin name was Salvia japonica,

native to East and South Asia and looking quite different from the

common sage which came from the Mediterranean.

 

The Chinese Wikipedia, 基維百科, gave the correct latin name for 鼠尾草，

but that seemed it. No a single line was written in Chinese about the

herb and not a single link was provided. So besides its name and maybe

Scarborough Fair, the Chinese knew nothing about the plant?

所有跟帖： 

• 估計對其知道很少， 禁是應該的，引進新物種造成生態災難例子比比皆是， 比如美洲的Asian carp -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/11/2023 postreply 10:17:48

• That's a good point. Bans fail over time, though. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/11/2023 postreply 10:27:15

• 中國不用嗎？查了圖片： -妖妖靈- ♀ (82 bytes) () 05/11/2023 postreply 14:20:18

• They don't even have a word for it! 鼠尾草 is fake. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/11/2023 postreply 14:43:34

• parsely sage rosemary and thyme -Marauders- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/12/2023 postreply 13:30:11

• 我在grocery store裏這四樣都看到了，每次都擺在那，就像中國人的蔥薑蒜一樣普遍：） -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/12/2023 postreply 22:02:18