Plant Species Z (Aberration)

Plant Species Z
Item
Type	Plant
Added in	v275.0

Plant Species Z is a plant in the Aberration DLC of ARK: Survival Evolved.

The plant can be grown by putting Plant Species Z Seeds in a Large Crop Plot. The seeds can be found at wild Plant Species Z plants.

Once fully grown, it produces Plant Species Z Fruits, which act as a flash-bang grenade that blind both survivors and creatures for a few seconds. Unlike the Plant Species X, it is not a defensive plant and can't shoot projectiles.

Standing near the plant (both wild and plot) causes it to glow and scare away any creatures that are frightened by light. Furthermore, wild variants restore and revitalize any player and tamed dinos nearby if they have not been hurt or handcuffed for the last 5 minutes. (due to game mechanics this is not effective on baby creatures). If players stay nearby the plant will retreat its tentacle every 60 to 90 seconds and expel a single fruit; collecting it provides one Plant Species Z seed. If all players leave the vicinity for several seconds the countdown will reset; otherwise it will continue producing fruit at the same interval as long as at least one player is nearby.

Production

The Plant Species Z grows the same as any other plot-based plant, consuming both water and fertilizer to grow.

The following items can be used as fertilizer:

Fertilizer type	Fertilizer units	Fertilizes for	Fertilizes full* plant for
Human Feces	1,000	10m	3h 5m
Small Animal Feces	3,500	35m	10h 48m
Medium Animal Feces	7,500	1h 15m	23h 8m
Unicorn Residue	7,500	1h 15m	23h 8m
Large Animal Feces	15,000	2h 30m	1d 22h 15m
Massive Animal Feces	35,000	5h 50m	4d 11h 55m
Snow Owl Pellet	50,000	8h 20m	6d 10h 10m
Fertilizer	54,000	9h	6d 22h 30m
Bonemeal Fertilizer	90,000	15h	11d 13h 30m

* When a plant has its maximum of fruits, it needs less fertilizer. As the fruits spoil after some time, leaving the plant in a non-full state for some time, these numbers are rather theoretical maximums.

Notes

A common mistake many survivors make is believing the wild plants to be dangerous. They are perfectly safe and the plant will not harm the player, tames, or any other creature in close proximity to it (It will scare away creatures that are negatively affected by light however). In fact it is on the contrary as standing near the plant gives revitalization properties.

One of the safest locations for obtaining seeds is the plant that spawns at 30, 35.

In lore, Plant Species Z was one of Rockwell's side projects on studying the effect of charge on plants when he stumbled onto this plant. Rockwell gave the observations he made on the plant to the futuristic tribe survivors as a diversion from his main project: effects of Edmundium/Element on an organism as a whole.