Editing Shiso (section)

== History ==
''Perilla frutescens'' was cultivated in [[ancient China]].<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Prance |editor1-first=Ghillean |editor2-last=Nesbitt |editor2-first=Mark |last1=Sanderson |first1=Helen |last2=Renfrew |first2=Jane M. |date=2005 |title=The Cultural History of Plants |publisher=Routledge |page=109 |isbn=0-415-92746-3}}</ref> One of the early mentions comes from the ''Supplementary Records of Renowned Physicians'' ({{lang|zh|名醫別錄}} ''Míng Yī Bié Lù''), written around 500 AD,{{sfnp|Yu|Kosuna|Haga|1997|p=37}} where it is listed as ''su'' ({{lang|zh|{{Wikt-lang|zh|蘇|蘇}}}}), and some of its uses are described. The plant was introduced into Japan around the eighth to ninth centuries.<ref>{{harvp|Yu|Kosuna|Haga|1997|p=3}}, citing:{{citation|last=Tanaka|first=K.|title=Effects of Periilla|year=1993|journal=My Health|issue=8|pages=152–153}} (in Japanese).</ref>

Red shiso became available to gardening enthusiasts in England around 1855.<ref name="floricultural1855"/> By 1862, the English were reporting overuse of this plant, and proposing ''[[Solenostemon scutellarioides|Coleus vershaeffeltii]]''<ref>{{citation|last=Dombrain|first=H. H.|title=Floral Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RXUCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA96|year=1862|volume=2|place=London|publisher=Lovell Reeve|format=google}}, Pl. 96</ref> or ''[[Amaranthus tricolor|Amaranthus melancholicus]]'' var. ''ruber'' made available by [[John Gould Veitch|J.G.&nbsp;Veitch]] as an alternative.<ref>{{citation|last=Dombrain|first=H. H.|title=New or rare plants|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XDdNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA181|year=1862|journal=The Gardener's Monthly and Horticultural Advertiser|volume=4|page=181|place=London|publisher=Lovell Reeve|format=google}}</ref> It was introduced later in the United States, perhaps in the 1860s.<ref>{{citation|last=Maloy|first=Bridget|title=The Horticultural Department:The Culture of Flowers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QOkhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA222|year=1867|journal=The Cultivator & Country Gentleman|volume=29|page=222|place=Alban, NY|publisher=Luther Tucker & Son|format=google}}, "''Perilla nankinensis'' was one of the first of the many ormanental foliaged plants brought into the gardens and greenhouses of this country within few years. "</ref><ref>{{harvp|Foster|Yue|1992|pp=306-8}} gives mid-19th century as introductory period into the US.</ref> Today, it is considered a [[Weedy species|weed]] or [[Invasive species|invasive]] species.