Here in Israel Mandragora is native. Winter wet and summer dry it grows in pretty crummy soil. Very resilient. I had always assumed it was poisonous until a friend said the fruits are very edible but the seeds are toxic. The fruits do smell fantastically wonderful so I tried eating one (without the seeds) and it was DELICIOUS! Very unique flowery and sweet. I would grow them for the fruits alone besides all the folklore connections. Here we are told the Arabs used mandrake seeds as a soporific for surgery way back when. Shmuel Silinsky Jerusalem, Israel Zone 9 On Sun, Jan 16, 2022, 11:08 AM Nils Hasenbein via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Martin, > > to me, the two forms seem pretty distict, so I would prefer them to remain > split. > You are right, I should give it another try; I simply had no garden to > plant it those years ago. Judging from Ulis and the wiki‘s pictures, a > medium fertility should yield a more balanced leaf-to-flower ratio. > > Best wishes, > Nils > > P.S.: Of course it‘s officinarum, not officinalis - in my previous post > spell check „corrected“ it > > From the middle of germany, where it is wet, foggy and around 2-4 C at the > moment, after too warm (12C) holidays and a few freezing (-8C) nights. > Hippeastrum are fading indoors, a single Crocus laevigatus flowers in a pot > outdoors. > > > ... von unterwegs ... > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>