Strange plant

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Strange plants respawn within the red square, shown on this minimap.

The Strange plant is a randomly growing plant can be found on Karamja just northwest of the Brimhaven POH portal. When picked, it gives the player a strange fruit, which can be consumed to recover 60% run energy and cures poison if the player's character is poisoned.

An easy way to make these plants grow, and to obtain its fruits, is by visiting the plant respawns' location just north of the small lake (nearby the house portal in Brimhaven). If players are lucky they may notice that 3 strange plants start to grow, which can also be seen on the minimap as yellow dots. If these plants don't appear, a player can hop to a different world on the RuneScape servers and try to find plants growing there. Respawn time is approximately 30 minutes.

Random event

The strange plant as a random event was discontinued from RuneScape after an update.

Strange plant

Release date	2 February 2004 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	None
Life points	2000 (200 HP)
Experience for killing	Unknown edit
Slayer level	Not assigned
Aggressive?	If ignored, yes
Poisonous?	Yes 2 HP (20 life points)
Immune to poison?	No
Attack style	Melee
Attack speed
Max hit	20 (approx)
Weakness	ring of recoil, fast speed attackring of recoil, fast speed attackring of recoil, fast speed attackring of recoil, fast speed attackring of recoil, fast speed attackring of recoil, fast speed attackring of recoil, fast speed attackring of recoil, fast speed attackring of recoil, fast speed attackring of recoil, fast speed attackring of recoil, fast speed attackring of recoil, fast speed attackRing of recoil, fast speed attack
Always drops	Strange fruit
Examine text	A very strange plant.

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The Strange plant used to be a RuneScape random event. This event made a plant grow next to the player. If the player did not pick the plant within a minute or two, then the plant would attack, and possibly poison. It was possible to attack and kill this monster, although it was very difficult due to the fact that any player's maximum hit on it was 30 Life Points, and it had a considerable number of Life Points. It dropped strange fruit or nothing.

Fighting strategy

Before the Update, if the player chose to, they could fight this random event. The player was given about 5–8 minutes to kill it before it disappeared. Due to its high defence level, a few Rings of recoil would help greatly while fighting. Some food and a high-level antipoison potion may also have helped. Upon killing the random, players wouldn't receive anything other than a strange fruit; however, as few players have been known to kill it, it was often considered an impressive feat.

However, all players needed to kill efficiently is patience and level 9+ Magic. Players could use approximately 250 earth strikes to kill it from behind a table, fence, or other structure which they can shoot over.

Trivia

• The strange plant is supposed to be related to the Jade vine according to the Back to My Roots quest. Another relative of the strange plant is the "Stranger plant" a summoning familiar called forth from the Spirit Plane.
• When fighting the strange plant with Guthan's armour, the player could heal higher than the damage that is dealt.
• The Strange Plant may be based on a enemy in the Zelda series called a Deku Baba from Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask; its attack form resembles a Bio Deku Baba from Majora's Mask and the Stranger Plant resembles a Boko Baba.
• The spell Wind Strike, which normally has a maximum hit of 2 HP (20 LP), could inflict 3 HP (30 LP) of damage on the strange plant.

Gallery

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  Strange plant before the update.

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  Strange plants on Brimhaven.