Mandragora autumnalis MANDRAKE (plant)

Mandragora officinarum or mandrake is a small taproot plant that grows mainly on the Mediterranean coast.
It is a plant that measures 30cm in height by 40cm in diameter.
Its fruit is orange, each plant can produce around ten fruits.
The ripe fruit smells like bananas.
Its leaves are thick, rather thin and long.
Its purple flowering is spectacular, it takes place around October.

This rare esoteric plant has numerous alkaloids, which give it mydriatic and nootropic properties.
Sorcerers and witches attribute magical and esoteric virtues to it, just like that of devil berries or henbane.

Mandrake is also used medicinally.
It also has aphrodisiac properties.

Because of its taproot, this plant needs deep, sandy, cool soil.
The substrate used must be rich in organic matter.

Please note: The mandrake goes into vegetative rest from mid-March to the beginning of April until September.
It is therefore normal to see its leaves turn yellow and then fall during the spring period, its vegetative cycle is the opposite of common plants, the mandrake truly remains a totally mysterious plant.

Mandrake, plant 7 to 15 cm high, delivered with a good root system.
As soon as you receive the plant, it is important to transplant it into a 2 liter pot, use a rich and above all very draining substrate. The mandrake doesn't like having its feet in water.
It is also possible to plant your mandrake plant directly in the ground in a sunny location.

• Easy to grow, hardy and slow growing.
• Full sun exposure.
• Very rare magical and mythical plant.
• Has many medicinal properties.

Be careful, the entire plant is toxic except its fruit.
Also available in the form of a sachet to grow.

To be cultivated only for the collection of esoteric and ethnobotanical plants.