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Mandrake is a poisonous herbaceous plant in the genus Mandragora, often connected with magical rituals.
Mandrake may also refer to:
In nature
- Mandragora (genus), a genus in the Solanaceae family, including
- Mandragora autumnalis, mandrake or autumn mandrake (considered by some sources to be a synonym of Mandragora officinarum)
- Mandragora caulescens, Himalayan mandrake
- Mandragora officinarum, mandrake or Mediterranean mandrake
- Mandragora turcomanica, Turkmenian mandrake
- Bryonia alba, English mandrake or white bryony
- Podophyllum peltatum, American mandrake, a North American plant in the Berberidaceae family
In media and entertainment
- "Mandrake", a long-established social diary in The Daily Telegraph newspaper, edited by Tim Walker. The column was shut down amid a wave of redundancies in 2014.
Fictional characters
- Mandrake, a short-lived mascot at the University of Oregon
- Mandrake the Magician, a comic strip character
- Caleb Mandrake, a character in The Skulls (film), a feature length film by Rob Cohen about a fictional secret society based on the Skull and Bones society
- Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, a character in Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove
- John Mandrake (Nathaniel), a character from the Bartimaeus Trilogy
- Paolo Mandrake, the lawyer and amateur detective who is the protagonist of stories by Rubem Fonseca and HBO's Mandrake (TV series) based on them
- Mandrake, a character in the animated feature Epic
Literature
- The Mandrake, a play by Niccolò Machiavelli
Music
- Mandrake (album), a music album by Edguy
- Mandrake (band), a German gothic metal band
- Mandrake in the Corner, trombone concerto by Christian Lindberg
- The Mandrake's Cry, a song on Danzig's The Lost Tracks of Danzig
Film and television
- Mandrake (TV series), a Latin American TV series
- Mandrake (film), a 2010 television film
People
- Leon Mandrake (1911–1993), a magician
- Tom Mandrake, a comic book artist
In publishing
- Mandrake of Oxford, a small press
- Mandrake Press, a publishing company
Other
- Mandrake Linux, former name of Mandriva Linux, a computer operating system
- Mandrake, the NATO designation for the Soviet aircraft Yakovlev Yak-25
See also
- Mandragora (disambiguation), Mandragora being the Latin word for Mandrake
- The Mandrake (disambiguation)
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