Cactus spine

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Cactus spine
Release																				11 July 2005 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Noteable																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Examine																				Don't prick yourself with this.
Values
Value																				1 coin
High alch																				1 coin
Low alch																				1 coin
On death																				Reclaimable Value: 2,066 Reclaim: 100
Weight																				0.028 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				2,066 coins (info)
Buy limit																				10,000
Volume																				33,096
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Advanced data
Item ID																				6016
Links																				MRID • recipe

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A cactus spine is a cactus product harvested from a cactus planted in a cactus patch, requiring level 55 Farming. Three can be harvested from a cactus patch at a time.

Cactus spines are required for making weapon poison+ (unf) potions at level 73 Herblore.

Farmers will watch over a planted yew seed in exchange for ten cactus spines.

Farming

Cactus spines can be harvested from a cactus grown within a cactus patch. A fully grown cactus can grow up to three cactus spines at a time. Each cactus spine, when picked, gives 25 Farming experience. Once all three cactus spines have been picked, the cactus will slowly produce more cactus spines. However, the cactus spine may be picked individually provided that at least one appears on the cactus.

The yield of cactus spines increases from 3 to 6 with the completion of the hard Desert achievements.

Patch locations

Patch	Location	Amount	Requirements
Cactus patch	Al Kharid	1	None
Cactus patch	Imperial District of Menaphos	1	Partial completion of The Jack of Spades
Cactus patch	Northern Anachronia	1	None
Cactus Patch	Het's Oasis	1	None

Products

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Item		Members	Skills	XP	Materials	GE price
	Weapon poison+ (unf)		73	1	1 × Coconut milk 1 × Cactus spine	N/A

Drop sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Cactus (Farming)	55	3	Always
Camel Warrior	132	4–8 (noted)	Uncommon
Feline akh	109	1 (noted)	Uncommon
Imperial mage akh	130	2 (noted)	Uncommon
Imperial ranger akh	130	2 (noted)	Uncommon
Imperial warrior akh	130	2 (noted)	Uncommon
Liverworts	228	3–7 (noted)	Common
Menaphite gift offering (large)	N/A	10–22 (noted)	4 × ~Common
Menaphite gift offering (medium)	N/A	10–16 (noted)	3 × ~Common
Menaphite gift offering (small)	N/A	10–16 (noted)	2 × ~176/4280
Nature impling jar		1	1/10
Nature impling	58	1	1/10

Disassembly

Cactus spine
Disassembly category	Default disassembly items
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0 2 49 96.0 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.1 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.2
Common materials
Simple parts	99/100
Rare materials
Variable components	1/100

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included—see here for how to help out!

• patch 13 August 2013 (Update):
  • A typo on the "Not enough space for cactus spines" message has been fixed.

• update 11 July 2005 (Update):
  • Added to game.