beefsteak plant
1. plant grown for its ornamental red or purple foliage • Syn: Perilla frutescens crispa • Hypernyms: herb, herbaceous plant • Member Holonyms: Perilla, genus Perilla 2. South American plant having green to purple or red branches with green to purple ornamental foliage and spikes of insignificant woolly flowers with dry membranous bracts • Syn: beef plant, Iresine herbstii, Iresine reticulata • Hypernyms: bloodleaf
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