Color the Mandrake Plant

Mandrake. With  separate  fruit,  and  root.
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Description of Botanical Coloring Page: Mandrake  occurs  in  two  passages  in  the Bible  (Genesis  30:14;  Song  of  Solomon  7: 13),  in  connection with  its  imaginary  virtues  in  love  incantations, for  which  it  has  been  long  and  widely  famous. The  mandrake  is  a  stemless  plant,  with  a large  and  branching  root,  dark-green  leaves,  and a  yellow  fruit  about  the  size  of  a  large  plum.  Its affinities  are  with  the  potato  and  nightshade. The  root,  somewhat  manipulated,  may  be  made to  look  a  little  like  the  human  figure.  The  revisers have  in  the  margin  of  Genesis  30: 14  suggested "love-apple,"  but  this  is  only  applied  to the  tomato,  an  American  plant.  The  mandrake is  common  throughout  Palestine,  especially  in deserted  fields.

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