The purple-leaved variety is a very hardy and much-esteemed vegetable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

Forest Pansy is a purple-leaved variety with a spreading, more-rounded crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local News | The Bryan College Station Eagle] Reference

Bougainvillea (which is not a flower at all, but an audacious freak of terminal leaves) light up the shade, and the purple-leaved.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

Further instances of novelties with such a common origin are the purple-leaved dahlias, the gooseberries without prickles, the double petunias, erect gloxinias and many others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

A time we followed, was covered with a thicket of purple-leaved oaks, which were completely overgrown with bromelias and other air-plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Indian Mexico (1908)] Reference

You’re so right, Frances, most of our yard is shady which is why we’ve never planted ‘Forest Pansy’ or any purple-leaved tree or shrub.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winters Of Spring « Fairegarden] Reference

Mercifully, they’re all green-leaved in season two do turn incredible flame colors in fall, but if I had the red- or purple-leaved types I’d prune to lighten them up, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make That Cut-Pruning The Laceleaf Maples « Fairegarden] Reference

The purple-leaved peach has such pretty blosooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tennessee Welcomes Spring 2008 « Fairegarden] Reference

One of our most reliable purple-leaved trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference

Japanese, 58 purple-leaved, 619.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

"Jules Chretien," 628 purple-leaved, 626.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference