noun
- Plant grown for its ornamental red or purple foliage.
- synonyms: Perilla frutescens crispa
- 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.
- synonyms: beef plant, Iresine herbstii, Iresine reticulata
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