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Mandragora

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Alice

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Mandragora
« on: January 17, 2014, 08:46:28 PM »
This seems to be the year of the Mandrake on Paros. There are thousands of them in our area!
I think it is Mandragora autumnalis but there is a variation in flower colour from a very pale to a much darker blue. Any ideas?
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oron peri

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Re: Mandragora
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2014, 08:56:29 AM »
Alice it is Mandragora autumnalis only that this name is now a synonym for Mandragora officinalis.
Color of flowers as well as leave forms are variabile.
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Alice

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Re: Mandragora
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2014, 08:16:10 AM »
Thank you, Oron.
I was always a bit confused about the difference.
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Fleur Pavlidis

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Re: Mandragora
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2014, 02:44:42 PM »
If the two mandragoras have now been classified as one then there is great variation. At Sparoza the "M. autumnalis" finishes flowering in November whereas the "M. officinalis" is flowering now. Also they hold their leaves differently, the latter having a more upright habit.
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