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FREE: Toothache plant✿Peek-a-Boo✿Szechuan buttons✿Acmella oleracea✿20 seeds

 Toothache plant✿Peek-a-Boo✿Szechuan buttons✿Acmella oleracea✿20 seeds
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The listing, Toothache plant✿Peek-a-Boo✿Szechuan buttons✿Acmella oleracea✿20 seeds has ended.

Be aware, there will also be chaff. Very small seeds ~hard to separate.

AKA toothache plant, this herb is great to have in the garden if you wear braces. Flowers are interesting & probably why it's also called eyeball plant!

Wiki states -- "..small amounts of shredded fresh leaves are said to add a unique flavour to salads. Cooked leaves lose their strong flavour & may be used as leafy greens. Both fresh & cooked leaves are used in dishes such as stews in northern Brazil... Combined w/ chilis & garlic to add flavor & vitamins to other foods.

Flower bud has a grassy taste followed by a strong tingling or numbing sensation &often excessive salivation, w/ a cooling sensation in the throat. The buds are known as "buzz buttons", "Szechuan buttons", "sansho buttons", & "electric buttons". In India, they are used as flavoring in chewing tobacco.

Here are some links to more information -- things I just discovered & too many to list! It's practically a pharmacy!

http://www.globinmed.com/index.phpoption=com_content&view=article&id=83496:acmella-oleracea&Itemid=139

http://www.truthinaging.com/ingredients/acmella-oleracea

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Questions & Comments
Original
It great to see this plant auctioned again. Maybe I'll win it this time. lol. F/W
Jul 27th, 2014 at 7:04:18 PM PDT by
Original
Awesome ~ thank you!
Jul 28th, 2014 at 5:57:09 PM PDT by
Original
LOVE the extract from this plant! I've never seen the plant itself, though. Great auction!
Aug 6th, 2014 at 10:31:00 AM PDT by
Original
Ha! I didn't know extract was available. How cool is that!
Aug 6th, 2014 at 1:47:27 PM PDT by
Original
Do you grow it indoors? I guess it's safe to grow outside in FL. I'm wondering how it would do indoors, in a pot: I'm headed to USDA zone 3.
Aug 6th, 2014 at 10:32:53 AM PDT by
Original
I've never grown it indoors. I'm pretty certain that you could grow it as an annual outdoors. But it is not cold hardy. Maybe you could grow in a pot outdoors and bring in if you get a report of the temps dipping. If it doesn't overwinter, be sure to deadhead and save the dry flowers for replanting in the spring.
Aug 6th, 2014 at 1:46:51 PM PDT by

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