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Jungle Herbs Secondary Herblore Ingredients

The primary ingredient of a potion is the first material added to the vial of water (or other liquid), which defines what the potion will be. Most of the time this is an herb, and for this reason, you will often hear it said that herbs are the primary ingredients in potions. As it happens, though, there are three exceptions to the rule. These items are used like herbs, but are actually gathered in a manner more similar to how secondary ingredients are obtained than how herbs are. Two of the three are also untradeable.

The three non-herb primary ingredients are star flowers, cactus spines and cave nightshade.

Note that these do not have “grimy” and “clean” versions and so do not need to be cleaned before use. Be sure to also see the discussion of methods for collection these ingredients.

These pretty yellow flowers are the primary ingredient in magic essence potions. They grow in an extradimensional plane that is accessed using the Fairy Ring network, code “CKP”. You gain access to this plane during the same quest that introduces both magic essence potions and the fairy rings themselves: A Fairy Tale, Part II.

The flowers have a neat growing cycle, blossoming forth and then withering over a period of time, but are not difficult to collect (see Figure 202). They are untradeable.

These spines are obtained primarily by picking them from the cactus you can grow in Al-Kharid using the Farming skill; this requires level 55. They are used as the primary ingredient in extra strong weapon poison (weapon poison+).

The spines are tradeable, and also quite valuable, because of limited supply and significant demand for them. The supply is small because the cactus only provides three spines at a time, after which you must wait a couple of hours for more to regrow, and you can only grow a single cactus. The only other source of cactus spines is nature implings at the Impetuous Impulses minigame, but they are not a reliable source. Demand is high not just from herblorists, but also from players who use them for payments in Farming.

Nightshade is the name of a well-known family of real world plants that includes the deadly nightshade, so named for the fact that it is extremely poisonous. RuneScape’s cave nightshade is thus aptly the primary ingredient in super weapon poison (weapon poison++).

The “cave” in this item’s name comes from the fact that a primary source of the ingredient is a spawn location in a cave near the ogre town of Gu’Tanoth. This cave is accessed as part of the Watchtower quest, and to go back to collect nightshade after the quest, you need to get a skavid map and a light source. There is only a single spawn and the spawn rate is slow.

Cave nightshade can also be grown using the Farming skill by planting belladonna seeds. This is also slow, as you only get one nightshade per plant. (“Belladonna” is the common name for the deadly nightshade plant—there, you learned something else new. J)

Cave nightshade is untradeable.

Jungle Herbs Secondary Herblore Ingredients