| Scientific Name: | Iresine herbstii |
| Common Name: | bloodleaf |
| Family Name: | Amaranthaceae |
| Origin: | South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Succulent, Glabrous, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Panicle, White, Green, Can flower any month |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, most blades broadly ovate to suborbicular, 2-6cm long x 2-5cm wide, with notched tips, most purplish with light red veins, petioles 2-5cm long; florets very small, in panicles up to 50cm long. | |