Cave nightshade
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| Members only? | Yes |
|---|---|
| Quest item? | Yes |
| Tradeable? | No |
| Equipable? | No |
| Stacks? | No |
| High Alchemy | 18 coins |
| Low Alchemy | 12 coins |
| Destroy | Drop |
| Store price | Not sold |
| Examine | Deadly. |
| Weight | 0 kg |
Nightshade is used in Herblore to make Super strong weapon poison along with poison ivy berries and coconut milk. This requires level 82 Herblore. It is nontradeable but there are two slow spawns in caves in the ogre city Gu'Tanoth south of Yanille. Nightshade may also be grown at Draynor Manor, and requires gloves or gauntlets in order to pick it - otherwise the player won't be able to pick the nightshade, as well as suffering a one-time 2 poison damage. The seed grown to get nightshade is a belladonna seed. The location of the cave nightshade spawns in Gu'Tanoth are indicated in the map, you will need a skavid map and a light source of some kind to access these spawns.
Wear a Ring of Duelling for fast banking, a pair of gloves is not needed, though you cannot pick Nightshade, raised with the farming skill, without gloves equipped. Nightshade respawns in 54 seconds.
You cannot trade nightshade to anyone - even put it in a familiar's inventory - but a Magic box can transport them to the bank. Filling your inventory with imp boxes and a skavid map will net 81 nightshades per trip, but will cost 60750 in imp boxes, if the boxes are left behind. It is possible to transport empty imp boxes as regular cargo, using a live imp-in-a-box. With each transaction of 2 items (consisting of an empty box and a night shade) each trip will cost 750 gp per trip, with one box left behind, and will net 54 nightshades. This is the fastest way known to gather nightshade, yet a full load will still take at least an hour.
Wearing a Mining helmet or Seers' Village Diary Headband (any level), saves 2 spaces in your inventory, (though you will be reminded you have no tinderbox, it is entirely safe not to carry one) but a skavid map must be held in inventory, whilst in the caves.
Nightshade also features in the Watchtower quest, which is why it is untradeable.
WARNING: Eating nightshade will deal up to 15 points of damage, depending on the player's HP; a while ago it was used in a popular scam, which is another reason why it was made untradeable. Eating it you will also say: "Ahhhh! What have I done!"
[edit] Trivia
- Old image of the nightshade.
- During the Dream Mentor quest, if a Cave nightshade is used on Cyrisus, the following message will appear: "How evil! Are you trying to kill him?"
- It is based on a real life plant called the bella donna, or deadly nightshade, that is highly toxic.
