The Creepy History of the Mandrake | Ep. 177
Plant School Podcast

The Creepy History of the Mandrake | Ep. 177

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 30, 202533 min
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Hello and welcome to the Plant School Podcast. I'm Rachel Tenney and here we learn all about plants, how they work, how to care for them, and it's all taught in a way that anyone from beginner to expert can listen to, understand, and enjoy. So I hope that you will join me in Plant School.

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Hello and welcome to the Plant School Podcast. I am so happy to have you here today. Today on the podcast, we are going to be doing a rerun of the Mandrake episode. This is an episode I did a few years ago, but it has some very rich and kind of spooky

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history to it. So I felt like it would fit this time of year perfectly. I re-listened to it and I learned so much from my initial research that I had forgotten over the years.

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