Plant of the Day
Monday 14 January 2019
In winter the Mediterranean herbaceous perennial, Mandragora autumnalis (autumn mandrake) grows a rosette of glossy green, wrinkled leaves on the ground. Then large groups of purple flowers bloom followed in summer by poisonous tomato-like fruit which contain alkaloids. These plants thrive in alkaline, deep, sandy, moist soil in some shade.
Jill Raggett

















