Cultivating American Mandrake Answered by: Richard Alan Miller Question from: John Sallis Posted on: May 05, 2004
I am looking for some information on Mandrake farming but there does not appear to be much.
[It is assumed the question is about American mandrake, Podophyllum peltatum, and not about the European mandrake, Mandragora officinarum --editor.]
I have written a chapter on this as a wildcraft product in my book "Native Plants Of Commercial Importance". The markets are too small for cultivation.
If I did have a market to merit cultivation, I would do it first much like Valerian or Bloodroot, as a rootcrop, using a ginseng plow.
It grows native throughout the Mid-West, especially Michigan and Wisconsin.
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