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|genus=Mandragora
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|common_name=Mandrake
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'''Mandrake''' is the common name for members of the [[plant]] genus '''''Mandragora''''' belonging to the [[nightshade]]s family (Solanaceae). Because mandrake contains [[deliriant]] [[hallucinogen]]ic tropane alkaloids and the roots sometimes contain bifurcations causing them to resemble human figures, their roots have long been used in magic rituals.
The mandrake, ''[[Mandragora officinarum]]'', is a plant called by the Arabs ''luffâh'', or ''beid el-jinn'' ("[[djinn]]'s eggs"). The parsley-shaped root is often branched. This root gives off at the surface of the ground a rosette of ovate-oblong to ovate, wrinkled, crisp, sinuate-dentate to entire leaves, {{convert|5|to|40|cm|in}} long, somewhat resembling those of the tobacco-plant. A number of one-flowered nodding [[Peduncle (botany)|peduncles]] spring from the neck bearing whitish-green flowers, nearly {{convert|5|cm|in}} broad, which produce globular, succulent, orange to red berries, resembling small tomatoes, which ripen in late spring. All parts of the mandrake plant are [[poison]]ous. The plant grows natively in southern and central [[Europe]] and in lands around the [[Mediterranean Sea]], as well as on [[Corsica]].
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Mandragora (name used by Hippocrates, said to signify that the plant is hurtful to cattle). Solanaceae. Mandrake. Old medicinal herbs.
Mandragora (name used by Hippocrates, said to signify that the plant is hurtful to cattle). Solanaceae. Mandrake. Old medicinal herbs.
==Varieties==
==Species==
''[[Mandragora autumnalis]]''<br/>
''[[Mandragora officinarum]]''<br/>
''[[Mandragora turcomanica]]''<br/>
''[[Mandragora caulescens]]''
==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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Image:Mandrake-roots.jpg|Mandrake twin roots
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