Without more context, it’s hard to tell what it is, but definitely not a *Mandragora officinarum* nor any of the other plants who’s trivial name is a variant of Mandrake. Obligatory reminder, that *Mandragora sp.* are nightshades and packed full of dangerous alkaloids.
CypripediumGuttatum
Hope he had his earmuffs on
julioqc
that’s not a mandrake 🤨
HiItsKeke
Be careful they’re dangerous!!!
HighColdDesert
When I was a kid in the 1970s we knew that mandrakes were traditionally said to scream when pulled up, so we’d pull them, though we knew they would never scream. And they didn’t. Their leaves didn’t look like your photo, though.
Kaurifish
My condolences.
The traditional method was to dig it most of the way out, then tie it to a starving dog with a food dish just out of reach.
Yet another reminder that, even when harvesting fictional plants, people suck.
Bread-Funny
Am I the only one that thinks of Dr. Stangelove when I hear mandrake?
zombiedrow
I have several alfalfa plants i want to dig up at a site im stewarding and this does not bode well.
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Damn is that from planet Earth?
Did it scream ?
Without more context, it’s hard to tell what it is, but definitely not a *Mandragora officinarum* nor any of the other plants who’s trivial name is a variant of Mandrake. Obligatory reminder, that *Mandragora sp.* are nightshades and packed full of dangerous alkaloids.
Hope he had his earmuffs on
that’s not a mandrake 🤨
Be careful they’re dangerous!!!
When I was a kid in the 1970s we knew that mandrakes were traditionally said to scream when pulled up, so we’d pull them, though we knew they would never scream. And they didn’t. Their leaves didn’t look like your photo, though.
My condolences.
The traditional method was to dig it most of the way out, then tie it to a starving dog with a food dish just out of reach.
Yet another reminder that, even when harvesting fictional plants, people suck.
Am I the only one that thinks of Dr. Stangelove when I hear mandrake?
I have several alfalfa plants i want to dig up at a site im stewarding and this does not bode well.
Did you neglect yo’ earmuffs?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
https://undark.org/2016/03/31/did-solzhenitsyn-cure-his-own-testicular-cancer/
Interesting story about mandrake root
🙉
It doesn’t look happy to be pulled out of its home