Salvia tubiflora

Salvia tubiflora is a perennial native to a small area of western Peru and northern Chile near the tropic of Capricorn, growing at elevations from 800 ft to 1600 ft.

Salvia tubiflora grows up to 9 ft tall and 3 ft wide, with heart shaped yellow-green leaves that reach 4 in long and 2 in wide. The undersides have prominent veins with tiny hairs arranged in rows. The sparse flowers are a dark cranberry-red color, growing two or three in a whorl, on stiff inflorescences that reach 12 in long. The 1 in flowers are long, straight and tube shaped, which explains the specific epithet tubiflora. The 0.75 in calyx is an unusual reddish green color and covered with small hairs and glands.