Please help identify

I pass this plant every morning on my way to work. It is in somebody's front yard. The picture is horrible because I took it with my cell phone camera (it is the only thing I have on my way to work).
It looks like red licorice is hanging off of it!

 

Looks like something red... probably a red tree... but I'm not sure!!! :)

Sorry, my real tip is: Calomeria amaranthoides...

 

Thanks for the tip! But I don't think that is it. :(

 

Sorry, I've no other idea... :( Probably another photo will be very helpful!!!

 

Looks artificial to me . . . red plastic string, tied on with white ribbons.

 

How about Love Lies Bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus) on a trellis?
http://www.jungleseeds.com/images/AmaranthuscaudatusRed.jpg

HTH
Chris

 

That has got to be it! Thank you!

 

Hmmm... Amarathus caudatus is usually a smaller, annual plant... Isn't it an Acalypha? A. hispida? The flowers are a bit different, but we can't see the flowers... :(

 

Possibly but it would have to be brought into a greenhouse in Winter for it
to survive from year to year.

Regards
Chris