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Noun: beefsteak plant  'beef,steyk plãnt
  1. Plant grown for its ornamental red or purple foliage
    - Perilla frutescens crispa
     
  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
    - beef plant, Iresine herbstii, Iresine reticulata

Derived forms: beefsteak plants

Type of: bloodleaf, herb, herbaceous plant

Part of: genus Perilla, Perilla

Encyclopedia: Beefsteak plant

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