bloodleaf

Definitions of bloodleaf
  1. noun
    any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage
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    types:
    Iresine herbstii, Iresine reticulata, beef plant, beefsteak plant
    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
    type of:
    subshrub, suffrutex
    low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base
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