Stranger plant

Not to be confused with Strange plant.

Stranger plant
Release		15 January 2008 (Update)
Summoning level		64
Duration (mins)		49
Points cost		70
Familiar size		Unknown edit
Race		Unknown edit
Abilities		Farming 1 + 4% (of your level) Forager - strange fruit
Special moves		Poisonous Blast
Combat level		94
Examine		It's mean and green.
Combat stats
Life points		Max hit
9000		1036
Attack	Defence	Ranged	Magic
72	64	72	72
Immune to poison		Yes
Attack style		Melee
Infobox • Talk page

A stranger plant is a level 94 combat Summoning familiar released with the introduction of the Summoning skill. It requires level 64 Summoning. The familiar is summoned by using a stranger plant pouch, and will give you 3.2 summoning experience. Making a pouch requires 1 empty pouch, 128 spirit shards, 1 crimson charm, and 1 bagged plant 1 and yields 281.6 summoning experience.

The stranger plant has a random chance to forage for strange fruit.

The stranger plant can boost a player's Farming level by +1 plus 4% of the players normal farming level. The boost is not automatic but must be activated by interacting with the familiar and requesting the boost. The boost is very useful for planting seeds that require a slightly higher farming level than the player has. For example, a Spirit seed requires level 83 farming to plant but can be planted at level 79 farming when using the familiar's boost. The boost does not stack with other farming boosts like that from a Spicy stew.

At level 75 the boost is +4, at which point the boost exceeds that of a Garden pie. The max boost is +5 at level 100 and above, which is equal to the boost from the Pork pie.

The player cannot get another effective boost from a stranger plant while the player's farming level is boosted above its normal level. At first, when the player is at or near the stranger plant's full farming boost effect, the player cannot successfully invoke the stranger plant's boost. Attempting to do so gets a message, 'Your stat cannot be boosted this way right now.' Later, while the player's farming level is still boosted a bit, the player can get the stranger plant to attempt the farming boost, but the player's farming level is not boosted. Once the player's farming level drops to its normal max, the boost will be effective again. Players who will need the boost multiple times should consider doing another activity (such as high-alchemising items) while waiting to use the plant's boost.

The stranger plant has a special move called Poisonous Blast, which can be activated if you have a Poisonous Blast scroll in your inventory.

When trading a stranger plant pouch with Bogrog, the player gets 90 spirit shards back.

Stranger plant pouch

Stranger plant pouch

	Shards	Cost/XP	Charm	Tertiary
	128 ( 3,200)	18.5 coins		Bagged plant 1
	Create XP	Use XP	Low alch	Hi alch	GE price
	281.6	3.2	1,449	2,174	2,447 (info)
	GE Database	Cost to make	Bogrog shard return		Shard return level
	Look up price	5,200	90 (2,250)		69
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	Examine text
	I can summon a stranger plant familiar with this.

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A Stranger plant pouch is used in the Summoning skill to summon a Stranger Plant. It is made by using a Summoning pouch on a Summoning obelisk with 128 spirit shards, a Crimson charm and a bagged plant in your inventory. It gives 281.6 Summoning experience when made, and 3.2 when used. Using this pouch on an obelisk will enable you to create 10 Poisonous Blast scrolls.

Poisonous Blast scroll

A player activating the scroll.

Poisonous Blast scroll

	Create XP	Use XP	Special move points
	3.2	3.2	6
	Low Alch	High Alch	GE Price
	144	217	170 (info)
	GE Database	Bogrog shard return	Shard return level
	Look up price	7 (175)	69
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	Examine text
	A scroll for a stranger plant familiar.

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The Poisonous Blast scroll enables the use of the poisonous blast power for a Stranger Plant familiar. It is made by using a Stranger Plant pouch on a Summoning obelisk, creating 10 scrolls.

Poisonous blast

Poisonous Blast is a special move generated via the Poisonous Blast scroll, and may be used while you have summoned a stranger plant. The stranger plant attacks for up to 1036 magic damage. Previously the special move had a 50% chance of poisoning an opponent, but after the Evolution of Combat it cannot poison.

Poisonous Blast grants 3.2 Summoning experience when the scroll is created and another 3.2 experience when the scroll is activated.

It also does not identify as an opponent in Duel Arena matches; therefore disallowing an opponent the ability to attack it. It is not clear whether this is intended, or merely a bug.

Dialogue

This article on a Summoning familiar has an associated dialogue page. Click here for a transcript of possible conversations with this familiar.

Update history

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• patch 27 June 2016 (Update):
  • Interacting with the Strange Plant familiar, with familiar options hidden, now gives the correct options.

• patch 5 January 2015 (Update):
  • An issue that prevented stranger plant familiars producing strange fruit has been fixed.

• update 15 January 2008 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• The stranger plant is an allusion to the Strange plant, which was once a random event, but is now found on Karamja near Brimhaven, randomly growing when a player is nearby.
• The examine text is a reference to the movie Little Shop of Horrors.
• One of the possible dialogues may suggest that Benny is a spy.
• The stranger plant is most likely related to the fly trap in Runescape and inspired by the real-life Venus flytrap.