This includes the roots, leaves, blossoms, flower buds and seeds. The stems, leaves and flower buds are all edible. The leaf buds and young leaves are also edible raw. They eat fruit, nuts, buds and leaves. Peonies tend to attract ants to the flower buds. Only its edible flower buds and flavorful shoots are used in cooking. Embedded in this are numerous papillae that house the taste buds and their taste receptors. When provoked by damage, dormant buds in the burls sprout new shoots and roots. The gustatory system consists of taste receptor cells in taste buds. This oil is extracted by distillation mostly out of fresh flower buds and flower stalks. Another peculiarity is the way the leaves grow sticky, green buds. The buds and flowers can be used in salads. He also had his taste buds removed. Within each papilla are hundreds of taste buds. The twigs are slender with small, dark conical buds in a zigzag pattern.