Mandrake

Mandrake
Information
Japanese	マンドレイク
Rōmaji	Mandoreiku
Type	Plantae
Size	30-40 cm
Habitat	The Island, Level 2 and below
First Appearance
Manga Debut	Chapter 4
Anime Debut	Episode 2
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Mandrakes (マンドレイク, Mandoreiku^?) are a type of plant monster in Delicious in Dungeon.

Anatomy and Appearance

Mandrakes typically resemble a man made out of roots. They start off looking like a bulb that then grows roots, sprouts, 'eyes' and a 'mouth'. The roots then grow small bulbs at the ends with the 'head' portion also growing roots.

Gallery

Mandrake screaming.

Mandrake top view.

Behavior and Weaknesses

When pulled out of the ground, mandrakes let out a scream that causes anyone that hears it to have a mental breakdown and possibly die. However, experienced foragers can easily kill one by cutting its head before it has the chance to scream. Another method, which is said to make the mandrake taste better, is to fasten a rope to a mandrake and then get an animal to pull it out, but this will unfortunately result in the animal's death.

Culinary Usage

Mandrakes are edible, and can be used in a variety of recipes. Their heads are the most nutritious and supposedly delicious part. They contain 1000 lemons' worth of mana. The mana herbs used in the Roast Basilisk dish are actually just mandrakes grown using water spirits as nutrients.

They have been used in the following dishes:

Roast Basilisk
(as mana herbs)

Mandrake and Basilisk Omelet

Mandrake Kakiage & Giant Bat Tempura

Jack-o'-Lantern Potage and Sauteed Dryad Buds with Cheese

Stone-Baked Cockatrice and Egg Ankake

Memories of the Fifth Floor Pilaf

Ice Golem Savory Egg Custard and Cooked Fish (from in the Golem)

Candied Mandrake

Hamburg Steak with Changeling Sauce

Crispy Mushroom and Egg Sandwich

Trivia

• There is an annual fair dedicated to them, where a competition is held to see who can grow the most human-like mandrake. The most symmetrical one with 'eyes' that are level, limb-like roots in the right places and good colour will win.
• Mandrakes in real life used to have the same legend that it screams. The solution to pulling it out from Marcille’s book is the same as the real life strategy.
• In real life, mandrakes (Mandragora) are highly poisonous plants that should therefore not be eaten. However, due to mandrakes being used in omelettes and kakiage, it is possible that a real world substitute could be either parsnips or burdock root.