Photo: Perilla frutescens 4.

Photo: Perilla frutescens 4.

Plants with butterflies. Botanical garden Kumpula, Helsinki, Finland. Planted. 2002-07-26.


Perilla frutescens (L.) Britt.
Engl.: beefsteakplant, common perilla, green-leaved perilla, shiso, wild perilla.
Deu.: Grünes Shiso.
Suom.: veripeippi, shiso.
Sven.: bladmynta, kinesisk bladmynta, shiso.
Jap.: ao shiso.
Bot. syn.: Melissa cretica Lour., Melissa maxima Ard., Mentha perilloides Lam., Ocimum frutescens L., Perilla arguta Benth., Perilla avium Dunn, Perilla ocymoides L., Perilla urticaefolia Salisb.