iresine herbstii

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   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

   Synonymsbeefsteak plantbeef plantIresine reticulata

   Broaderbloodleaf

Questions about iresine herbstii

What does iresine herbstii mean?

iresine herbstii means "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".

What is another word for iresine herbstii?

Close synonyms include beefsteak plant, beef plant, Iresine reticulata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is iresine herbstii a common word?

iresine herbstii is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.