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{{Taxobox
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| name = ''Iresine''
| image = Iresine herbstii 3.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = ''Iresine herbstii''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Caryophyllales]]
| familia = [[Amaranthaceae]]
| subfamilia =
| genus = '''''Iresine'''''
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'''''Iresine''''' is a [[genus (biology)|genus]] which have a number garden [[ornamental plant]]s in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Amaranthaceae]]. These plants are found in the wild in tropical America, and there are between 20 and 25 [[species]]. However, only some species are usually cultivated because they have colored foliage, which is called bloodleaf.

Species include:

*''[[Iresine angustifolia]]'' Euph.
*''[[Iresine argentata]]'' (Mart.) D. Dietr.
*''[[Iresine diffusa]]'' Humb. et Bonpl. ex Willd. (= ''Iresine celosia, Iresine celosioides, Iresine canescens, Iresine paniculata'' (L.) Kuntze'', Iresine elongata'')
** ''[[Iresine diffusa lindenii|Iresine diffusa f. lindenii]]'' (=''Iresine lindenii'')
*''[[Iresine elatior]]''
*''[[Iresine flavescens]]'' Humb. et Bonpl. ex Willd.
*''[[Iresine grandiflora]]''
*''[[Iresine herbstii]]'' Hook. ex Lindl.
*''[[Iresine heterophylla]]'' Standl.
*''[[Iresine keyensis]]''
*''[[Iresine leptoclada]]'' (Hook. f.) Henrickson et Sundberg
* ''[[Iresine macrophylla]]'' [[R.E.Fr.]] (= ''Cruzeta celosioides'' ([[L.]]) [[M.Gómez]], ''Celosia paniculata'' [[L.]], ''Iresine celosioides'' [[L.]])
* ''[[Iresine polymorpha]]'' [[Mart.]]
*''[[Iresine palmeri]]'' (S. Wats.) Standl.
*''[[Iresine rhizomatosa]]'' Standl.

Some members of the genus are used as additives to some versions of the hallucinogenic drink [[Ayahuasca]].<ref>[http://www.serendipity.li/dmt/hoasca.html#tbl1 Ayahuasca Analogues]</ref>

==References==
===Notes===
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===General references===
* {{cite book | author=Pink, A. | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11892|title=Gardening for the Million| year=2004 | publisher=[[Project Gutenberg|Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation]]}}

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[[Category:Ayahuasca]]
[[Category:Amaranthaceae]]
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