beefsteak plant, n.
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
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Iresine herbstii Iresine reticulata beef plant beefsteak plant
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plant grown for its ornamental red or purple foliage
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Perilla frutescens crispa beefsteak plant