MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers Nursery and Herb Education Centre is now closed for orders from 16 December 2025 until mid-January 2026 while I take a short festive break.
Thank you for your continued support of my small, home-based nursery throughout the past year. I look forward to helping you grow plants for your kitchen, garden, and herbal home remedies cupboard when I reopen in the new year.
Wishing you a peaceful and nourishing festive season.
Minette
Out of Stock
Toothache plant ‘Lemon Drop’
$9.50
Toothache plant is an ANNUAL small, erect plant that bears gold or red-and-gold inflorescences. It prefers well-drained soil in a warm, full-sun position.
Leaves can be used in small amounts and the flower bud eaten is a novelty – having a grassy taste followed by a tingling and numbing sensation.
It has traditional medicinal uses.
Electric Daisy, also known as Jambu, Szechuan Buttons, or Toothache Plant (Acmella oleracea, syn. Spilanthes acmella) is a unique herbaceous plant in the Asteraceae family. The distinctive golden-yellow spherical flower heads contain spilanthol which is known for its electrifying, tingling sensation when eaten. Electric Daisy is used as a culinary herb adding interesting flavour profiles to various foods, and it is also much studies for its medicinal uses and is currently a herb of note.
