In Popular Culture
- The four episode Doctor Who serial The Masque of Mandragora by Louis Marks, broadcast in September 1976, features a living energy creature called the Mandragora Helix, a fragment of which hitches a lift to earth in the TARDIS and possesses and absorbs an Italian court astrologer towards the eventual aim of galactic domination.
- Mandragoras appear as monsters in many video games, particularly in RPGs such as the Final Fantasy series.
- In Shakespeare in Love, Will Shakespeare, frustrated by writer's block, orders a mandragora in the pub.
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