Tortoiseshell

Tortoiseshell is the name of

• Dave Schildkraut (1925–1998), American alto saxophonist
• Eric Schildkraut (1906–1999), German actor and radio play speaker
• Joseph Schildkraut (1896–1964), American film and theater actor of Austrian origin
• Rudolph Schildkraut (1862–1930), American film and theater actor of Austrian origin

Tortoiseshell also describes the following plants:

• the genus Clypeola from the cruciferous family
• as well as earlier
  • the stone herbs ( Alyssum , e.g. mountain stone herb , calyx stone herb ) from the same family and
  • the skullcap ( Scutellaria )

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.