Mandragora species

[yggdrasil]

Hi,

Does any one know what the other species of Mandragora (Mandrakes) are? There are meant to be 6 in the genus, I know of 3:

Mandragora officinalis/officinale/officinarum

Mandragora autumnalis

Mandragora turcomanicum/turcomanica

Thanks

Amunda

[theobromos]

w3tropicos http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html gives:

Mandragora autumnalis Bertol.

M. caulescens C.B. Clarke (with a drawing of this stalked variety, also called M. chinghaiensis Kuang & A.M. Lu, M. tibetica Grubov and Anisodus caulescens (C.B. Clarke) Diels but Mandragora caulescens C.B. Clarke is the accepted name)

M. officinalis L.

M. shebbearei C.E.C. Fisch. now called Przewalskia tangutica Maxim. (with image)

M. turcomanica Mizg.

[yggdrasil]

Cool,

Thanks

[Herbmajik]

Hi There ,there are several other species of Mandrake . American mandrake which as fara as I know is

Madragora podophyllum

and 2 other species that I have come across in one of my texts

Atropa madragora

Podophyllum peltatum

hope that helps

[Tripitaka]

Would be interested to hear how seeds from reville are going, have myself only jsut had the opportunity to put them down and invite any comment on the the communities prop's are going with these.

[gomaos]

put mine in 4 weeks ago.

nothing yet.

[Guest reville]

nothing yet. patience i guess.

[theobromos]

Atropos mandragora is an old name for the European mandragoras.

Podophyllum peltatum is the American Mandrake but is not a Mandragora. The medicinal effects are very different and they should not be confused. The English Mandrake was Bryonia dioica, the White Bryony, but I haven't seen this on the market stalls in Britain for a few centuries. Thbis one is also more horrible in its poisoning than Mandragora.

I have seen Ginseng referred to a Chinese Mandrake, but solely from the resmblance in the stories of man-shaped roots that glow in the night and run away from root hunters.

[This message has been edited by theobromos (edited 22 July 2002).]