tassel flower

Noun

• young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables; seeds used as cereal

• tropical African annual having scarlet tassel-shaped flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Cacalia

• tropical Asiatic annual cultivated for its small tassel-shaped heads of scarlet flowers

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  love-lies-bleeding , velvet flower , Amaranthus caudatus , Emilia coccinea , Emilia javanica , Emilia flammea , Cacalia javanica , Cacalia lutea , Emilia sagitta