MANDRAGORA (mandragora officinarum)

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	MANDRAGORA
	*mandragora officinarum*

Name
MANDRAGORA

Scientific Name
mandragora officinarum

MANDRAGORA

Mayapples grows generally in groups and the color slightly exceptional brilliant of leaf does very distinguishing and easy to mark. The flowers, on the other hand, hang underneath the leaves and must be looked for.

Commentaries: The fruit is eatable when mature but all the other parts of the plant are toxic. The American Indians can have used a root dust preparation as an insecticide in their harvests and seeds soaked in a decocción to protect them of plagues.

The warning: All parts of the plant except the mature fruit are extremely toxic. The root, that is driven easily, is a powerful irritating substance of eye.

The medical Uses: Although too toxic to use in house the remedies that this plant has they are many. The American Indians used the root like a strong laxative, to treat worms, numerous parasites and for other things. The root is used at the moment in medicines against the cancer and can have a commercial potential as a cultivated plant. There are histories that the use of the Indians by the root made them commit the suicide in hours hardly. The amount of the lethal dose is little clear.

MANDRÁGORA

Mandragora officinarum L.,

Castilian: mandrágora, mandrágula, berenjenilla, lechuguilla, grape of Moor, apple of May, wild lemon

English: spring mandrake, Satan'apple

Officinarum L. of Mandragora; Family of Nightshade (Solanaceae) a herbaceous perennial stemless with the oval foot-long leaves that rise directly by the root. The flowers are 1 yellow length, greenish purple or of one inch, followed by oblong a greenish berry. Natural of southern Europe. Cultivación and propagation: It pleases the light to him, deep ground, because the roots work the distant plain. It grows bad in a ground that is hard or excessively stony. If the too much wet ground this in winter, the roots will be disturbed. One propagates of the seeds that are due to seed in deep planes or, better, single in potes. These are due to maintain watered well and when they reach a good size they are due to carefully need at least 2 feet separated. Harvesting: The roots are due to dig after the second or third year. If they are gone in the Earth they will come a great age, and they will have great roots of ramification up to four feet of length.

Note: It does not confuse this mandrake of the old world with mandrake American (peltatum of Podophyllum) whose roots are sold by many companies of the grass under the name of "Mandrake roots." These roots are a long-range cathartic poison. The different plants are unmistakably.

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