Botany Quest
Required Base Level: 1
Quest Prerequisite(s): Missing Book Quest
Quest Rewards: 2,250,000 Base Experience, Access to Kafra Band Quest

Note

This is a part of the Missing Book Quest.

This quest will not be triggered if you do not meet the conditions to start it.

  1. Go to southern Umbala (um_fild04 262, 252) and talk to the Botanist. He muses over the stolen book and introduces himself as Jonathan Greengold, a researcher in the field of botany and plant cultivation.

    Botanist

  2. Jonathan begs you to let him keep the book as it's vital to his research. After a bit of chatting, he asks you to identify five different plant species in his place.

    You must find Rare Plants and kill them to obtain 30063.png Unidentified Plant scattered around Umbala Fields.

    Rare Plant

    Notes

    • If the quest is not active (not started yet, or already completed), the Rare Plants won't drop anything.
    • It is worth noting that Rare Plant looks like a Shining Plant.
    • Every batch of 5 Unidentified Plant will roll a chance to get one of the five plant types.
    • You have 1/6 of failing to identify the plant.
    • You can still keep getting the same plant type every time, so it's advisable to bring a big amount of Unidentified Plant.
    • Unidentified Plant are Char Bound; however, the identified ones aren't (so you can use the duplicates with other characters).
    Identified Plants
    30064.png Laurus Parasitii 30065.png Galium Mordere 30066.png Lotus Coles 30067.png Iris Luzzi 30068.png Jasminum Uva

  3. Once you get five different plant types, talk to Jonathan again and he will lend you the book 30062.png A Guide To Identifying Midgardian Vascular Plants.

  4. Jonathan will forward you to his wife. She is located on the same map, at (um_fild04 189, 333).

    Jonathan's Wife Location of Jonathan's Wife

  5. She will suggest that there may be Kafra positions in Western Division of the Kafra Corp. in (comodo 129, 194).

  6. You can now start the Kafra Band Quest.