Mandrake is the common name for members of the plant genus Mandragora, particularly the species Mandragora officinarum, belonging to the nightshades family ( Solanaceae ).

The heroine is at several points the catalyst to a powerful orgasm that condemned men are subjected to before they are slaughtered as they climax at the hand of those seeking the Mandragora flower.

In some older classifications, the Mandrake ( Mandragora officinarum ) is considered a species of the Atropa genus as Atropa mandragora.

It is a secondary metabolite found in certain plants of the Solanaceae family, including henbane ( Hyoscyamus niger ), mandrake ( Mandragora officinarum ), jimsonweed ( Datura stramonium ), tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum ) and deadly nightshade ( Atropa belladonna ).

Mandragora is a 1997 film by Polish director Wiktor Grodecki about the mental and physical decline of a 15-year old boy who runs away from his seemingly distanced father to Prague, where he becomes a victim of the drug and sex scene.

Placing under this a crystal glass so that the piece of iron was suspended inside the goblet, the old woman commanded the figure to strike the iron against the glass in such a manner as she wished, saying at the same time to the figure: " I command you, Mandragora, in the name of those to whom you are bound to give obedience, to know if the gentleman present will be happy in the journey which lie is about to make.

She is ranked at the significantly higher Level 404, and her death attack is " Mandragora Buster.

The Masque of Mandragora is the first serial of the 14th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 4 September to 25 September 1976.

Hieronymous addresses the Doctor as " Time Lord ", and says that Earth has to be possessed ; if mankind's ambition is not checked, it will eventually spread into the Galaxy and the powers of Mandragora will not allow a rival within their domain.

The BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures novel The Eleventh Tiger by David A. McIntee features an energy helix that is strongly implied to be the same one featured in The Masque of Mandragora.

The book ’ s titular character is an inventor in the primitive and isolated farming village of Mandragora.

When told of Frost's investigation, the Doctor pointed out that another name for Mandrake was Mandragora.

The sorceress put several other questions to the Mandragora, who struck the glass once or thrice as seemed good to him.

There are also several recipes for making gold, even from root vegetables such as the Mandragora.

5, Mandragora, several pages were simply excised.

Naturally occurring deliriants are found in plant species such as Atropa belladonna ( deadly nightshade ), various Brugmansia species ( Angel's Trumpets ), Datura stramonium ( Jimson weed ), Hyoscyamus niger ( henbane ), and Mandragora officinarum ( mandrake ) in the form of tropane alkaloids ( notably atropine, scopolamine, and hyoscyamine ).

Tropane alkaloids are also found in the Datura, Mandragora, and Brugmansia genera, as well as many others in the Solanaceae family.

Alien influences have also, for example, trapped the Doctor's TARDIS and drained its power in " The Web Planet " ( 1965 ) and " Death to the Daleks " ( 1974 ), while its course has been diverted by " The Keeper of Traken " ( 1981 ), the " Mandragora Helix " ( 1976 ) and by the Daleks ' " time corridor " in " Resurrection of the Daleks " ( 1984 ).

" However, the Fourth Doctor era serial The Masque of Mandragora also introduced the idea that the TARDIS has at least one secondary console room, later confirmed in the Eleventh Doctor episode The Doctor's Wife.

He also provided voices for the Doctor Who stories The Ark in Space, The Masque of Mandragora and Time and the Rani.

Mandragora, from Tacuinum Sanitatis ( 1474 ).

* Mandragora officinarum ( Mandrake ).

* Franco Cardini, The Chapel of the Magi in Palazzo Medici ( Firenze: Mandragora, 2001 ).

* The Mandragora Helix showed up again in the spin-off media, on schedule, at the end of the 20th century in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip The Mark of Mandragora ( DWM # 169-# 172 ).

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