Mandrake

Mandrakes are very rare and can be picked up like flowers. If you do this at daytime they will die immediately and can then be stored into your inventory. They are better than anything else against hunger? (70 points), for healing, or for researching (100 points*).

When you pluck them at night, they follow you around until morning, then they replant themselves.

Cooking them knocks you out until daytime. You can use this trick to skip night without a bed. It also gives you a cooked Mandrake.

One can cook a mandrake, immediately leave the game to main menu, and return by continue to have progressed to the next day and kept the uncooked mandrake to essentially skip days and glitch experience.

Since this is has the attributes of a living creature/animal, and the properties of food, we are indexing them as both, for now.