Plants & Seeds

Classical Breedable Plants

Certain creatures drop Plain, Red, Blue or Yellow seeds. In early times, seeds obtained via combat used to produce plants of one of three varieties:

Ferns
Campion Flowers
Tribarrel Cacti

Currently tribarrel cacti seeds are replaced by random seeds, which now include all classical varieties as well as (flowery) cactus oddity and vanilla oddity. However, two thirds of seed drops are still either campion flowers or ferns.

Such seeds will be named according to their color (eg "Red Seed"). There are several ways to obtain descriptive seeds (eg "Red Tribarrel Cactus Seed"):

If a plant is grown and then bred with itself, it will produce descriptive seeds of the same type.
If a seed is dropped into a seed box. its variety is automatically identified.
Poppies dust can be used to identify the variety of a seed as well.

Breeding different combinations of these seeds together can produce more colors and plant varieties. Any plant that provides seeds can produce a total of eight over it's lifetime.

The initial starting seeds are dropped by:

Breeding Table

There are 17 types of classical breedable varieties:

Campions
Flowers

Poppies

Snowdrop

Bulrushes

Lillies

Pampas Grass

Rushes

Elephant
Ear Plant

Fern

Ponytail Palm

Small Palm

Century Plant

Water Plant

Snake Plant

Prickly Pear
Cactus Plant

Barrel
Cactus Plant

Tribarrel
Cactus Plant

This order of appearance is useful for identifying the breed of the next generation. If you breed two plants of varieties in this table, the next generation will be the variety of the middle one.

Example 1. If you cross-pollinate campion flowers and fern, the middle one between these two varieties is lilly
Example 2. If you cross-pollinate elephant ear plant and water plant, there is no exact middle one because there are even number of varieties inbetween. In this case, the next generation will be either ponytail palm or small palm, equally likely.

Often this table is presented in L-shaped manner:

Resource Growing Plants

Some plants produce resources which can be harvested via the Plant Resource GUMP. Up to eight units can be harvested from any given plant.

Green Thorns, which produce various random effects, are produced by Bright Green plants of these types:

Snake Plants
Barrel Cacti

Red Leaves, which lock the contents of books, are produced by Bright Red plants of these types:

Ponytail Palms
Elephant Ear Plants
Century Plants

Orange Petals, which provide high levels of poison resistance, are produced by Bright Orange plants of these types:

Pampas Grasses
Poppies
Bulrushes

Cocoa Pulp, which is used as a Cooking ingredient, is produced by Cocoa Trees.

Poppies Dust, which is used to ID unnamed seeds, is produced by the "peculiar" style of poppies.

Flax Flowers produce bales of cotton and the cypress trees produce bark fragments.

Mutant Plants

Mutants are grown from specially colored seeds, but cannot be bred and do not produce more. There are 2 ways of obtaining mutant seeds.

1st Way. They are typically obtained by completing the Naturalist Quest.

If you investigate 4 egg nests, they come in aqua, pink and magenta. If you also complete investigation of the secret egg nests, they come in black, white and fire red.
Aqua, pink, magenta and fire seeds always come in classical breedable variety, (flowery) cactus oddity and vanilla oddity.
Black and white seeds always come in peculiar varieties.

2nd Way. Any plant that can produce seeds (aside from the Cocoa Tree) also has a chance of producing black or white mutants instead of the color they normally would. Such seeds are very rare.

Bonsai Plants

With the advent of Ultima Online: Samurai Empire, certain creatures in the Tokuno Islands have a chance of dropping special Bonsai seeds. The seed name corresponds to the names listed below. For example, an uncommon bonsai comes from an uncommon seed. There are eight varieties:

Common Bonsai Tree (also available in green)
Uncommon Bonsai Tree (also available in green)
Rare Bonsai Tree (also available in green)
Exotic Bonsai Tree
Exceptional Bonsai Tree

All forms are dropped by:

Peculiar Plants

Peculiar seeds began appearing with Publish 55 and can grow 17 new plant varieties (one of which comes in two facings, for a total of 18). These plants cannot be cross-pollinated and with the exception of Vanilla (began appearing with Publish 76, it can produce seeds and can also produce Vanilla as a resource), do not produce new seeds nor resources. Instead, they are only dropped by certain monsters.

It was initially decided that no coloured Peculiar plants would be available, but due to a bug which caused the Naturalist Quest to produce nothing but coloured Peculiar Cactus plants, Publish 56 will make both standard and peculiar plants available from the same quest.

The seeds are divided into five groups based on the monsters that drop their seeds. For example, if you want to get a twisted Cypress Tree you must kill monsters from the second group. As the seeds are unlabeled either have to wait until the seed reaches the 7th stage of growth or use the resource poppies dust to identify the seed type. Assuming you harvested from the correct monster, you have a 20% change of receiving the seed in Group 1 you are after and a 25% chance for the seeds in all Groups 2 to 4.

Monsters

Plants

Group 1

Dryad
Titan
Tsuki Wolf

Spider Tree

Flax Flowers

Foxglove Flowers

Hops Plant (East)

Orfluer Flowers

Group 2

Ant Lion
Mummy
Serpentine Dragon

Cypress Tree (Twisted)

Hedge (Short)

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Snowdrops

Group 3

Hiryu
Terathan Warrior
Wisp

Cactus

Cattails

Poppies

Water Lilly

Group 4

Juka Mage
Kappa
Plague Beast

Cypress Tree (Straight)

Hedge (Tall)

Hops Plant (South)

Sugar Canes

Group 5

Exodus Minion
Exodus Overseer

Vanilla

Cocoa Trees (Fragrant Seeds)

Fragrants seeds began appearing with Publish 55 and are used to grow the Cocoa Tree, which in turn can not be cross-pollinated.

Whenever a creature would drop a Peculiar seed, there is a chance a Fragrant seed will be dropped instead. They are hence collected from the same creatures but at a lower drop rate. Unlike peculiar plants, they do grow further Cocoa Tree Seeds.

In addition they produce Cocoa Pulp, a consumable resource used by cooks as a key ingredient to create chocolate confection preparations, namely Cocoa Butter and Cocoa Liquor.

The Chocolatiering branch of the Cooking skill was introduced with Publish 50 on St. Valentine's Day 2008 but cocoa pulp and cocoa trees did not appear until Publish 55, nearly 6 months later.

Ungrowable Plants

Some plants are available as decorative items outside of the Gardening system.

Available during the Spring Cleaning 2008 event:

Available via Heritage Tokens:

Available in 11th Year Collection:

Plants given during Holidays:

Rare Plants

Plants have undergone name changes and as such original plants could be considered rare. Original plants have the name Decorative Plant and do not list the color or type of plant. The second generation of naming included the plant color. The current and last naming system now includes color and type.

First generation. Generic name only.
Second generation. Color is included.
Third generation. Color and type included.