Toothache Plant

Toothache Plant
Acmella oleracea (L.) R.K. Jansen 1985
= Spilanthes oleracea L. 1767 ...

Toothache Plant
Acmella paniculata
Spilanthes paniculata, Spilanthes acmella var. paniculata ...

Toothache Plant [English]: Spilanthes oleracea
Toothache Plant [English]: Spilanthes oleracea 'Peek-A-Boo'
Toothache Plant [English]: Acmella oleracea
Toothache Tree [English]: Zanthoxylum hirsutum
Toothache Tree [English]: Aralia spinosa ...

Toothache plant, Brazil cress, Para cress
Estonian
Harilik nööpkakar
Finnish
Parakrassi, Spilantes
French
Cresson de Para, Spilanthe des potagers; Brèdes mafanes, Brède mafana (Madagascar)
German ...

Species and varieties
Blainvillea acmella synonym of Spilanthes acmella (Toothache Plant)
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This annual is used in salads because of it’s pepper like flavor, and is also chewed for toothache because of it’s anesthetic properties, this is how it gets it’s other common name of Toothache Plant.

See also: Aster, Green, Cress, Acer, Tarragon