Mandrake (disambiguation)
Mandrake is a poisonous herbaceous plant in the genus Mandragora, often connected with magical rituals.
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Mandrake may also refer to:
Biology
- Mandragora (genus), a genus in the family Solanaceae, including
- Mandragora autumnalis, mandrake or autumn mandrake (considered by some sources to be a synonym of Mandragora officinarum)
- Mandragora caulescens, Himalayan mandrake
- Mandragora officinarum, mandrake or Mediterranean mandrake
- Mandragora turcomanica, Turkmenian mandrake
- Bryonia alba, English mandrake or white bryony
- Podophyllum peltatum, American mandrake, a North American plant in the family Berberidaceae
Arts and entertainment
Film, television, and drama
- The Mandrake, a play by Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Mandrake (1965 film), a 1965 Franco-Italian film
- Mandrake (TV series), a Latin American TV series
- Mandrake, a 2010 television film with Andrew Stevens
Fictional characters
- Mandrake, a short-lived mascot at the University of Oregon
- Mandrake the Magician, a comic strip character
- Caleb Mandrake, a character in The Skulls, a feature-length film by Rob Cohen about a fictional secret society based on the Skull and Bones society
- Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, a character in Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove
- John Mandrake (Nathaniel), a character from the Bartimaeus Trilogy
- Paolo Mandrake, the lawyer and amateur detective who is the protagonist of stories by Rubem Fonseca
- and HBO's Mandrake based on them
- Mandrake, a character in the animated feature Epic
Music
- "Mandrake Root", a 1968 song by English rock band Deep Purple
- "Mandrake", a 1976 song by progressive rock band Gong
- Mandrake (album), a 2001 album by Edguy
- Mandrake (band), a German gothic metal band
- The Mandrake (band), an American death metal band
- Mandrake in the Corner, trombone concerto by Christian Lindberg
- The Mandrake's Cry, a song on Danzig's The Lost Tracks of Danzig
Literature and publishing
- Mandrake of Oxford, a small press
- Mandrake Press, a publishing company
- "Mandrake", a former long-established social diary edited by Tim Walker in The Daily Telegraph newspaper, revived in 2018 by The New European.
- The Mandrake (Surrealist group), a 20th-century Chilean Surrealist group
People
- Leon Mandrake (1911–1993), magician
- Tom Mandrake (born 1956), comic book artist
Other uses
- Mandrake Linux, former name of Mandriva Linux, a computer operating system
- Yakovlev Yak-25 (NATO designation: Mandrake), a Soviet aircraft
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