strange plant

It looks like some sort of comfrey.

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: anna maria

I was in Rome last february and I took several pictures in
the Campo de' Fiori farmers market. Today I was looking at
the pictures and I saw on one of them a strange plant I
didn't notice before.

I am publishing part of the picture at this address

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The plant looks like a gigantic sage with leaves about one
foot long. I have never seen it before.

Does anyone know what it is?

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Looks like the herb being discussed last week; bear's garlic
or some such.

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anna maria said:

I was in Rome last february and I took several pictures in
the Campo de' Fiori farmers market. Today I was looking at
the pictures and I saw on one of them a strange plant I
didn't notice before.

I am publishing part of the picture at this address

annamariavolpi.commisterious plant.htmlOpen ↗

The plant looks like a gigantic sage with leaves about one
foot long. I have never seen it before.

Does anyone know what it is?

Ciao,

Anna Maria

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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.

Ciao,

Anna Maria

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Quoted message said:

anna maria follows up her own post:

anna maria said:

I was in Rome last february and I took several pictures
in the Campo de' Fiori farmers market. Today I was
looking at the pictures and I saw on one of them a
strange plant I didn't notice before.

I am publishing part of the picture at this address

annamariavolpi.commisterious plant.htmlOpen ↗

The plant looks like a gigantic sage with leaves about
one foot long. I have never seen it before.

Does anyone know what it is?
annamariavolpi.compage28.htmlOpen ↗

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.

Your photo depicted no kind of sage plant I've ever seen,
not even close, sage just doesn't grow like that nor do
sage leaves have that texture... now that I've looked more
carefully they look exactly like beet greens... you need
to substantiate your claim about giant sage with
documentation from some independant botanical site, and
post the link here.

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anna maria said:

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.

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.

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PENMART01 said:

Noting you diskover wiell bee accureate... you need to lei
off the dago red.

Take your pills Shelly!

Cristina

"> WOP!

wop was an acronym that stood for "With Out Papers". it
should only be applied to italian americans since it implies
immigration. cristina is in italy so you'll have to come up
with another racial slur to replace it. i'm sure it won't be
hard for you. try to use the aol keywords "racial slurs"

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Quoted message said:

anna maria follows up her own post:

anna maria said:

I was in Rome last february and I took several pictures
in the Campo

de'

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Fiori farmers market. Today I was looking at the
pictures and I saw on one of them a strange plant I
didn't notice before.

I am publishing part of the picture at this address

annamariavolpi.commisterious plant.htmlOpen ↗

The plant looks like a gigantic sage with leaves about
one foot long. I have never seen it before.

Does anyone know what it is?
annamariavolpi.compage28.htmlOpen ↗

It is giant sage or Salvia officinalis 'Giant' as listed by
the Royal Horticultural Society plant finder guide.

A.C. said:

wop was an acronym that stood for "With Out Papers".

No.

Main Entry: wop Pronunciation: 'wäp Function: noun Usage:
often capitalized Etymology: Italian dialect guappo
swaggerer, tough, from Spanish guapo, probably from Middle
French dialect vape, wape weak, insipid, from Latin vappa
wine gone flat usually disparaging : ITALIAN

Almost all of those, "this word is an acronym for . . ."
deals are false etymologies. It ain't For Unlawful Carnal
Knowledge or Worthy Oriental Gentleman or Gentlemen Only
Ladies Forbidden either.

Brian Rodenborn

cristina said:

anna maria said:

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.

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.

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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.

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Quoted message said:

A.C. said:

wop was an acronym that stood for "With Out Papers".

No.

Main Entry: wop Pronunciation: 'wäp Function: noun Usage:
often capitalized Etymology: Italian dialect guappo
swaggerer, tough, from Spanish guapo, probably from Middle
French dialect vape, wape weak, insipid, from Latin vappa
wine gone flat usually disparaging : ITALIAN

Almost all of those, "this word is an acronym for . . ."
deals are false etymologies. It ain't For Unlawful Carnal
Knowledge or Worthy Oriental Gentleman or Gentlemen Only
Ladies Forbidden either.

Brian Rodenborn

i stand corrected. slur away sheldon 😉

anna maria said:

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.

I stand corrected! You are right, the picture made it
difficult to see and it it was weird because the stalks
looked much longer due to the shadow on the black plastic
bag below it. Yes it looks like my sage plants. Take two,
place an anchovy filet in the middle, dip in batter and fry
away. Yummy!

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There's a small town about 45 miles from Fargo named
Wahpeton (pronounced wah peh tun accent on the wah). It's a
Native American name (novelist Louise Erdrich is from the
reservation close to Wahpeton) Their foot ball team are the
Wahps but I don't know how they spell it. I've seen it on
home made cheer signs spelled: Whaps. Lynn from Fargo

cristina said:

anna maria said:

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.

I stand corrected! You are right, the picture made it
difficult to see and it it was weird because the stalks
looked much longer due to the shadow on the black plastic
bag below it. Yes it looks like my sage plants. Take two,
place an anchovy filet in the middle, dip in batter and
fry away. Yummy!

wow... sounds delicious... i am going to try it today....

ciao,

anna maria

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