Acmella oleracea is a species of flowering herb in the family Asteraceae. Common names include toothache plant, paracress, Sichuan buttons, buzz buttons, tingflowers electric daisy, jambu. It is grown as an ornamental and attracts fireflies when in bloom. It is used as a medicinal remedy in various parts of the world. A small, erect plant, it grows quickly and bears gold and red inflorescences. It is frost-sensitive but perennial in warmer climates. An erect annual herb; stem and branches more or less hairy. Leaves opposite, 2.5-5 cm long, ovate, acute or subobtuse, irregularly crenate-serrate, base acute. Heads yellow, 0.6-1.3 cm long, ovoid, solitary or subpanicled; peduncles sometimes reaching 10 cm long. Annual or short-lived perennial herbs, erect or prostrate at the base and rooting at the nodes, upwards often strongly branched. Leaves opposite, simple, mostly dentate. Flower heads radiate or discoid, terminal or axillary from the upper leaves, usually solitary, erect. Fruit a small, dry, hard, 1-seeded achene. It grows in upland fields, waste places, roadsides and riversides. Young leaves and flower heads are eaten raw, boiled or added to curry.
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