beefsteak plant

Noun

• 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

• plant grown for its ornamental red or purple foliage

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  beef plant , Iresine herbstii , Iresine reticulata , Perilla frutescens crispa