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mandrakes
Mandragora
Mandragora is a plant genus belonging to the nightshade family (Solanaceae). Members of the genus are known as mandrakes. Between three and five species are placed in the genus. The one or two species found around the Mediterranean constitute the mandrake of ancient writers such as Dioscorides. Two or three further species are found eastwards into China. All are perennial herbaceous plants, with large tap roots and leaves in the form of a rosette. Individual flowers...
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Garden of Health
1507 · p.205
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.210
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.639
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.639
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.199
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.577
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.694
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.469
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.564
Rivers of life, or sources and streams of the faiths of man in all lands; showing the evolution of faiths from the rudest symbolisms to the latest spiritual developments
Forlong, J.G.R. · 1883 · p.101
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.256
Herbarius
1485 · p.200
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 337455.