Potato cactus

Potato cactus
Released							7 September 2004 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							No
Properties
Tradeable							Yes
Equipable							No
Stackable							No
Noteable							Yes
Options							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							69 coins (info)
Buy limit							11,000
Daily volume							562,303
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Advanced data
Item ID							3138
Link							MOID

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.

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.

Potato cacti can be used on a compost bin to create normal compost.

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.

• 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.

v t e Farming produce
Allotments	Potato Onion Cabbage Tomato Sweetcorn Strawberry Watermelon Snape grass
Flowers	Marigolds Rosemary Nasturtiums Woad leaf Limpwurt root White lily
Herbs	Guam leaf Marrentill Tarromin Harralander Goutweed Ranarr weed Toadflax Irit Avantoe Kwuarm Snapdragon Cadantine Lantadyme Dwarf weed Torstol
Hops	Barley Hammerstone Asgarnian Jute fibre Yanillian Flax Krandorian Wildblood Hemp Cotton boll
Bushes	Redberries Cadava berries Dwellberries Jangerberries White berries Poison ivy berries
Trees	Willow branch Leaves Any Oak Willow Maple Yew Magic Roots Oak Willow Maple Yew Magic
Fruit trees	Apple Banana Orange Curry leaf Pineapple Papaya Coconut Dragonfruit
Special produce	Giant seaweed Grapes Zamorak's grapes Mushroom Cactus spine Nightshade Potato cactus Calquat fruit White tree fruit Celastrus bark Weeds
Tithe Farm	Golovanova Bologano Logavano
Baskets	Empty Apples Bananas Oranges Tomatoes Strawberries
Sacks	Empty Potatoes Onions Cabbages

v t e Nightmare Zone
Bosses	Agrith-Naar Agrith-Na-Na Arrg Barrelchest Black demon Black Knight Titan Bouncer Chronozon Corrupt Lizardman Corsair Traitor Count Draynor Cow Culinaromancer Dad Dagannoth mother Damis Dessourt Dessous Elvarg Elven traitor Essyllt The Everlasting Evil Chicken Fareed Flambeed Gelatinnoth Mother Giant Roc Giant Scarab Glod Headless Beast Ice Troll King The Inadequacy Jungle Demon Kamil Karamel The Kendal Khazard warlord King Roald Me Moss Guardian Nazastarool Nezikchened Sand Snake Skeleton Hellhound Slagilith Tanglefoot Trapped Soul Tree spirit Treus Dayth The Untouchable Witch's experiment
Rumble mode power-ups	Power surge Recurrent damage Ultimate force Zapper
Rewards	Resources Flax Bucket of sand Seaweed Compost potion Herb box Vial of water Scroll of redirection Runes Air Water Earth Fire Essence Pure essence Upgrades Black mask (imbued) Slayer helmet (imbued) Salve amulet (imbued) Salve amulet (e) (imbued) Ring of suffering (imbued) Berserker ring (imbued) Warrior ring (imbued) Archers ring (imbued) Seers ring (imbued) Tyrannical ring (imbued) Treasonous ring (imbued) Ring of the gods (imbued) Granite ring (imbued) Benefits Super ranging Super magic Overload Absorption
Provided items	Anti-dragon shield (nz) Magic secateurs (nz) Death rune (nz) Blood rune (nz) Chaos rune (nz) Air rune (nz) Water rune (nz) Earth rune (nz) Fire rune (nz) Iron pickaxe (nz) Mithril pickaxe (nz) Rune pickaxe (nz)
Related	Rewards chest Dominic's coffer Super ranging potion (scenery) Super magic potion (scenery) Overload potion (scenery) Absorption potion (scenery) Plinth (Nightmare Zone) Spectator potion Potion (Nightmare Zone, dream) Potion (Nightmare Zone, wake) Pickaxe (Nightmare Zone)

v t e Herblore secondaries
Secondaries	Eye of newt Limpwurt root Red spiders' eggs Garlic Blamish snail slime White berries Toad's legs Snape grass Pharmakos berries Mort myre fungus Shrunk ogleroot Aldarium Star flower Nail beast nails Yew roots Lily of the sands Wine of zamorak Cactus spine Potato cactus Amylase crystal Jangerberries Magic roots Cave nightshade Nightshade Poison ivy berries Zulrah's scales Ancient essence Araxyte venom sac Demonic tallow Haddock eye Yellow fin Marlin scales
Dust/Crushed items	Unicorn horn dust Silver dust Chocolate dust Goat horn dust Kebbit teeth dust Gorak claw powder Dragon scale dust Crystal dust Crushed nest Lava scale shard Crushed superior dragon bones Ashes Volcanic ash Nihil dust Crab paste Squid paste Rainbow crab paste
Supplies	Unicorn horn Silver bar Chocolate bar Goat horn Kebbit teeth Gorak claws Blue dragon scale Crystal shard Bird nest (empty) Lava scale Superior dragon bones Nihil shard Red crab Blue crab Raw swordtip squid Raw jumbo squid Rainbow crab Raw haddock Raw yellowfin Raw marlin