Cadava berries

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For the item from New Varrock, see Cadava berries (New Varrock).

Cadava berries
Release																				4 January 2001 (Update)
Members																				No
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Noteable																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Values
Value																				1 coin
High alch																				1 coin
Low alch																				1 coin
On death																				Reclaimable Value: 2,466 Reclaim: 100
Weight																				0.007 kg
Examine
Poisonous berries.
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				2,466 coins (info)
Buy limit																				100
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Advanced data
Item ID																				753
Links																				MRID • recipe

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Cadava berries are berries which can harvested from a player-grown cadavaberry bush or cadava bushes found near Varrock.

Farmers will watch over a planted cactus in exchange for six cadava berries. Additionally, farmers will watch over a planted fly trap seed in exchange for fifteen cadava berries.

Farming

Cadava berries can be harvested from cadavaberry bushes grown within a bush patch. A fully grown cadavaberry bush can grow up to four cadava berries at a time. Each cadava berry, when picked, gives 7 Farming experience. Once all four cadava berries have been picked, the bush will slowly produce more cadava berries until four more are available again. However, the cadava berries may be picked individually provided that at least one appears on the bush.

Patch locations

Patch	Location	Amount	Requirements
Bush patch	West of Champions Guild	1	None
Bush patch	Rimmington	1	None
Bush patch	South of Ardougne	1	None
Bush patch	Southwest Etceteria	1	The Fremennik Trials
Bush patch	Crwys clan district	1	Plague's End

Drop sources

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

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Cadavaberry bush	22	4	Always

Locations

Plants

Location	Members	Spawns	Map
Varrock		3	Maplink

Disassembly

Cadava berries
Disassembly category	Food and herbs
Disassembly XP	0.6
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  75.8% 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 75.8% 1 34 75.1 2 49 73.6 3 64 72.1 4 69 70.5 5 78 69.0 6 83 66.8 7 91 65.2 8 95 63.0 9 105 60.7
Common materials
Organic parts	89/100
Uncommon materials
Crafted parts	8/100
Rare materials
Living components	1/100
Healthy components	1/100
Enhancing components	1/100

Update history

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• update 4 January 2001 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Prior to the Varrock graphic update, cadava berries merely laid on the ground and could be picked up by players.
  • After Varrock was graphically updated, cadava berries were changed to instead be growing on bushes. They are interactive scenery, and as such, do not appear on the minimap as the items once did.
• The Wise Old Man will occasionally request cadava berries for his tasks.
• The name "Cadava" is a play on "cadaver," another word for a corpse. It was named after its effect, which causes people to appear dead after consumption.
• Cadava berries were once needed during the Romeo & Juliet quest to make a cadava potion, obtained by giving the berries to the apothecary. Despite the removal of Romeo & Juliet, the potion can still be created by taking cadava berries to the apothecary, but it no longer has any practical use.
  • When Romeo & Juliet still existed, trying to use a cadava potion on Juliet after the quest would prompt her to say "I'm not drinking that again!"