Mandrake (disambiguation)

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Mandrake is a poisonous herbaceous plant in the genus Mandragora, often connected with magical rituals.

Mandrake may also refer to:

In nature

• Mandragora (genus), a genus in the Solanaceae family, 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 Berberidaceae family

In media and entertainment

• "Mandrake", a long-established social diary in The Daily Telegraph newspaper, edited by Tim Walker. The column was shut down amid a wave of redundancies in 2014.

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 (film), 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 (TV series) based on them
• Mandrake, a character in the animated feature Epic

Literature

• The Mandrake, a play by Niccolò Machiavelli

Music

• Mandrake (album), a 2001 album by Edguy
• Mandrake (band), a German gothic 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

Film and television

• Mandrake (TV series), a Latin American TV series
• Mandrake (film), a 2010 television film

Software

• Mandrake Linux, former name of Mandriva Linux, a computer operating system

Space

• Mandrake, the NATO designation for the Soviet aircraft Yakovlev Yak-25

People

• Leon Mandrake (1911–1993), a magician
• Tom Mandrake, a comic book artist

In publishing

• Mandrake of Oxford, a small press
• Mandrake Press, a publishing company

See also

• Mandragora (disambiguation), Mandragora being the Latin word for Mandrake
• The Mandrake (disambiguation)