Mandragora

Mandragora (m.)Plinius, Naturalis historia 25.147. est planta familiae Solanacearum.

In historia humana Mandragora multipliciter adhibetur. Apparet in Bibliis Hebraicis , in magia antiqui et medii aevi, et in perplurimis litteris poeticis fictionibusque (etiam in libris de Harrio Pottere, quos scripsit J.K. Rowling).

 Species 
 Mandragora autumnalis
 Mandragora officinarum
 Mandragora turcomanica
 Mandragora caulescens

 Notae 

 Bibliographia 
 Marie-Christine Daunay, Henri Laterrot, Jules Janick, "Iconography and History of Solanaceae: Antiquity to the XVIIth Century', in: Jules Janick, Horticultural Reviews, vol. 34 (2007), pp. 1-112 
 Marie-Christine Daunay, Henri Laterrot, Jules Janick, "Iconography of the Solanaceae from Antiquity to the XVIIth Century: a Rich Source of Information on Genetic Diversity and Uses" in Acta Hort. no. 745 (2007) pp. 59-88
 Harry S. Paris, Marie-Christine Daunay, Jules Janick, "The Cucurbitaceae and Solanaceae illustrated in medieval manuscripts known as the Tacuinum Sanitatis" in Annals of Botany vol. 103 (2009) pp. 1187–1205
 Charles Brewster Randolph, "The Mandragora of the Ancients in Folk-Lore and Medicine" in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences vol. 40 (1905) pp. 487-537 JSTOR
 Hugo Rahner, S.J. Moly and Mandragora in Pagan and Christian Symbolism. In: Greek Myths and Christian Mystery'', pag. 179 ss. New York 1971

 Nexus externi 

Categoria:Solanaceae
Categoria:Genera plantarum
Categoria:Taxa Linnaei
Categoria:Taxa 1753