Potato cactus

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Potato cactus
Released							7 September 2004 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							No
Properties
Tradeable							Yes
Equipable							No
Stackable							No
Noteable							Yes
Destroy							Drop
Examine							How am I supposed to eat that?!
Values
Value							1 coin
High alch							0 coins
Low alch							0 coins
Weight							0.5 kg
Respawn time							100 ticks (60 seconds)
Grand Exchange
Exchange							546 coins (info)
Buy limit							11,000
Daily volume							431,871
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Advanced data
Item ID							3138
Twisted League							Yes

Potato cactus is an item that is used with the Herblore skill as a secondary ingredient when creating magic potions and battlemage potions. Potato cactus can also be selected as one of the 3 of 31 items needed for Fairytale I - Growing Pains as well as 1 of 50 items for Mourning's End Part II. They can be grown in a cactus patch by planting potato cactus seeds, requiring level 64 Farming. Eight are also used to pay Taylor to look after a player's Celastrus tree. Collecting 5 of them while inside the Kalphite Lair is a requirement for the Easy Desert Diary.

Farming

At level 64 Farming, a player can plant a potato cactus seed in a cactus patch. They take roughly 70 minutes to fully grow and can be protected by paying a farmer 8 snape grass. Once grown, they can be harvested in a similar manner as normal cacti. Each pick grants 68 experience. Fully grown potato cacti have six "lives". Each pick of a potato cactus has a chance to remove one of the patch's lives. Once all the lives are used up, the player will have to wait for more potato cacti to grow on the plant, which should occur within 25 minutes.

Products

Item		Members	Skills	XP	Materials
	Battlemage potion(3)		80	155	1 × Cadantine blood potion (unf) 1 × Potato cactus
	Magic potion(3)		76	172.5	1 × Lantadyme potion (unf) 1 × Potato cactus

Obtaining

There are a total of 10 floor spawns in the Kalphite Lair:

• 1st level – 3 spawn in the south-west room where the Kalphite Soldiers are found.
• 2nd level – 7 spawn on the west wall next to the Kalphite Queen.

Note: The Kalphite Soldiers and Kalphite Guardians found in the lair are poisonous. Players are advised to bring some form of antipoison. Kalphite workers and the Kalphite Queen, however, are not poisonous - but be warned that the Kalphite Queen is level 333 and has very dangerous magic, range, and melee attacks that have a max hit of 31.

Item sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here (include RDT).

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Kalphite Queen	333	100 (noted)	8/128
Potato cactus (plant) Grown		1	Always
Theatre of Blood	N/A	Unknown	3 × 1/30
Theatre of Blood	N/A	50–60 (noted)	3 × 1/30
Undead Druid	105	10–15 (noted)	2/100

Spawns

Location	Members	Spawns	Map
Kalphite Lair - Queen's chamber		5	Maplink
Kalphite Lair		3	Maplink

Trivia

• According to the kalphite princess, the kalphites collect the potato cacti in order to lure unsuspecting humans and kill them.
• Potato cacti were previously available for purchase from the Nightmare Zone shop for 1,250 reward points. They were removed when the ability to farm potato cacti was added with the Kebos Lowlands update.