beefsteak plant
      n 1: plant grown for its ornamental red or purple foliage [syn: {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
         [syn: beef plant, Iresine herbstii, {Iresine
         reticulata]