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Comment by Propane

You hand these in, 10 at a time, to Lauranna Thar'well of Cenarion Refuge for 250 Cenarion Expedition rep. Handing these in will net you a 'Package of Identified Plants' which usually has a few gray items and some edible plants. Sometimes you get herbs.

It seems that you can't hand these in after you hit Honored with Cenarion Expedition, so use 'em when you get 'em.

Comment by 17619

I am honored now, I can't seem to get the quest from here again.. I have done it a few times before I got honored, but now the quest is gone? Anyone know why?

Comment by Earthdragon1000

I'd also recommend if you level an alt farm the plants on your main and have your alt turn them in before he/she starts questing in this zone so you can get revered much faster.

Comment by Zevarix

It takes exactly 360 of these to go from 0 Neutral to Honored. After honored these cannot be turned in anymore. I suggest doing this turn in before you do any of the quests to maximise your rep potential.

After you have a bunch of the bags the quest gives you, just hold down your Shift button and right click the bag to auto loot.

If you recieve any Uncatalogued Species https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=24407 do not turn any of them in until *AFTER* you hit honored. They are worth 500 rep a piece.

OBSOLETE:
Also there is a chance that the bags will drop Edible Fern https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=24540 these were used by twinks (no level req) prior to patch 2.1

Comment by bnetgamer77

Shocking how no one mentions a fine area to farm these.

It's true most, if not all mobs have an average of 20-25% chance to drop these...but I found out that the most annoying of Zangarmarsh creatures hold the key to gaining many Unidentified plants.

If you've ever done an instance in Zangarmasrh, you know of the lake to swim through has a plentiful amount of Mudfin frenzys' that every so often shoot up at you.

Turns out these buggers each have a 20-25% chance to drop an Unidentified Plant, and being they are all 1/4 of a regular mob, to AoE them down in a sense technically quadruples your chance of finding an Unidentified Plant.

I farmed these guys in bear form with no hassle and hit some mobs of 4 with no drops, to tanking a mob of 8 getting 7 drops...the odds are in your favor if you're out for the Grinding of Unidentified Plants.

Best of luck, and good fishing!

Comment by oofcool

i heve been farming Mudfin frenzys for 1hour and this is what i got :
78 Unidentified plant parts
240 gray - 1g 74s (stuck)
80 gray -1g 80s (stuck)
1 gray 2h axe -2g 30
2 gray mail shoulder -84s
3 gray cloth waist -36s
1 gray mail head -83s
i killed 292 Mudfin frenzys in 1hour
XP: not sure but i think 50k but i got 1bar and half at lvl 61
mobs lvls: 62-63
health : 1266-1306
tools : music and drinks =)
it drop about 1-3 every pack i killed.i did this on my drop lvl 61 so mage or higher lvl can do alot better

if u are herb then go farm bog giants and bog lords!
herbs get u alot of Unidentified plant parts

Comment by 64664

One of the very few items that actually can be sold on the AH and be turned in right away to receive a nice amount of reputation.
I suggest turning them in at least after friendly. At friendly the naga won't give reputation anymore, only their servant dudes do.

Comment by decker12

Note that the official Blizzard rep page still says you can turn in Unidentified Plant Parts for reputation at Exalted. This isn't entirely true.

If you are below Honored, you can turn in Unidentified Plants for the Package of Identified Plants. Inside that Package, sometimes you'll find Uncataloged Species. You can turn in Uncataloged Species at ANY reputation level to gain 500 rep.

However, if you are already Revered or Exalted, you cannot turn in Unidentified Plant Parts for the Package of Identified Plants. Therefore, you have no chance to find any Uncataloged Species, since you're never given a Package of Identified Plants.

So the moral of the story is to save every Uncataloged Species you find, and turn them in after Revered. If you're after the Cenarion Rep rewards it will benefit you to grind as many Unidentified Plant Parts as you can before you hit Revered, because it will be a one-shot, one-way gamble that your hundreds of Plant Parts may turn into Uncataloged Species.

Comment by 100744

Best place by far to farm these for an Aff 'lock is Serpent Lake. DoT each Mudfin Frenzy in a group with Siphon Life, Life Tap, then DoT the next group. The one DoT is more than enough to kill them, (at lvl 70 at least) and having your pet on defensive speeds things up.

I usually have the Imp out for the Fire Shield and put Fel Armor on, (not that I ever take it off). You do need to swim around a little, or looting the corpses gets a little difficult after about 5 groups.

Comment by 112528

I found a decent drop rate of these parts from the hydra type things (sorry can't remember names) which tied in with another quest from the alliance town in zangermarsh (again, sorry don't remember the name off the top of my head :s)

One useful thing for me was from 3 turn-ins i got 2x Arthas tears which would otherwise had required a run to Scholo for my pally epic mount!

Comment by BEZERK805

After honored, these are no longer useful for you. You should put them on the AH or give to your guildies / friends...

Comment by Arthonor

Wowhead statistics tells, that the 3 kinds of Bogstrok, liveing on islands and in waters in western Zangarmarsh, has the highest droprate.

They are humanoids, can not be pickpocketed though. They do drop Jaggal pearls, Shiny fish scales, fish oil, jaggal clam meat. and ofc. Unidentified plant parts

Water breathing potions for the hordes:

Simply don't do the quest "No more mushrooms!" wich Magasha in Swamprat Post in Zangarmarsh gives you.

Take the quest. you get 3 charges of 1 hour waterbreathing. abbandon the quest.
this way you can allways get free waterbreathing potions :D

Comment by Arthonor

I get plus 7 reputation with CE for killing a Terrorclaw.
at this point I am still friendly with CE

Comment by 150603

I found that the umbrafen eels in umbrafen lake in zangramarsh have about a 50% drop of the plant parts. Took me about 20 minutes or less to get them all.

Comment by omnom

I got quite many of these while doing Now That We're Still Friends... to get Sporeggar rep.
So if you want to get these and reputation to Sporeggar, I suggest you to 'grind' that quest

Comment by 127217

as a druid im after cenarion rep though every mid-game raider should be after it as well. i am also an alchemist so i want sporeggar rep. my plan here is to grind the bog lords with a paladin tank (killing 20 guys at once is very nice) and get rep for sporeggar from killing them in general, turning in bog tendrils, and looting any mature sporeling sacks i find, also, since im and herbalist i can gather these guys, which gives a total 55% chance to gather plant parts. these guys also drop motes of life and living essences. basicaly it'll take all of an hour (pending on respawns) and ill get all 360 of the plant parts i need no to mention sporeggar rep and lots of primals/essences.

happy hunting!!

Comment by Allakhazam

Great to farm for a Herbalist off the bog Lords and giants in the dead mire.
Drop rate off the skinning is about the same as the normal droprate off the mobs. This doubles your chance.

Comment by Allakhazam

Found a secret to making QUICK MONEY.......I made 45 gold in one hour just off junk. BONUS, I was grinding for faction by getting Unidentified Plant Parts which in one hour I was able to get about 60..1500 REP for Cenarion Expedition

IF you are a MAGE....AOE groups of Mudfin Frenzy...they only come in groups of 4 so you have to pull in more with your wand. Bubble (or dont bubble)--wait for all the pack to be biting you and AOE one or two times.... which drop TONS of Grime-encrusted Scale and occasional RIPPED FIN which is worth more and even varies junk items of armor or weapons....

MOJO (The Scryers)

Edited, Mar 26th 2007 3:35am by Mojolica

Comment by Allakhazam

Mudfin Frenzy' in Serpent Lake is not a good spot anymore, only drop gray junk

Comment by Allakhazam

A great place to farm for these is the 'Mudfin Frenzy' in Serpent Lake. YOu can down 5 fish quick and they sometimes drop even 2 per group. Good luck fishing!

Comment by Allakhazam

sold 70 of these for 400g yesterday, it wa awesome

Comment by Allakhazam

I think I know the answer to this but do these have a use past honored, or am I forced to just sell or throw in AH?

Comment by Allakhazam

The trick with these plantparts is that you should grind 360 parts before you finish even 1 quest for the C.E.
The first you talk to should be Lauranna Tar'wel. (You are now neutral with the bla bla)

When you hit the motherlode and get one or more Uncatalogued Species in the bags you receive as reward, hand them in after you'll be honored.

Comment by Allakhazam

You can turn stacks of these in for reputation with Cenarion Expidition - 250 rep / stack to be exact. There is a slight chance the pouches she gives you in return have an unidentified species in them, which you can turn right back in for another 500 rep. The repeatable quest for these goes away when you reach honored.

Comment by Thottbot

It's only available until honored. If you have them, use them.

Comment by Thottbot

I'm CE honored and getting around 7 Cenarion Expedition rep for kills in Underbog instance. Boss kills net around 50 rep or so. Do your plant parts asap to get to honored so ur underbog rep builds ur rep towards revered - which plant parts can't do (as they work only up to honored)

Also you can get Sanguine Hibiscus in Underbog(herbalism help to locate them, and not miss any, but you do not have to be a herbalist to pick hibiscus). Hibiscus turnins to Sporeggar once you hit lvl63 and either neutral or friendly. You should save your hibiscus til you hit Friendly because you can do the *easier* tendrils and spore sac turnins first.

Hibiscus drops from mobs and can be picked from the grown (herbalism not needed)

Comment by Thottbot

I'm getting about a 40% drop rate killing Marshfang Ripper's. Everything else on this list seems to be much lower then sepcified.

Comment by Thottbot

I'm grinding experience, sporeggar rep, and unidentified plant parts off the witherd bog things. I've been there for about an hour and have 40. But the drop rate is better for herbalists because if they don't drop the plant parts right away, herbalists are able to pick these plant monsters the same way a skinner would skin a beast. That also increases the chances of gettign the plant parts.

After handing in the 40 parts, in one of the packages I recieved there was a quest item that I handed in to get 500rep, which is the same as handing in 20 plant parts, so if you get lucky it could reduce a lot of the time needed to get rep up. I probably should have saved the quest item for after I hit honored as it would have been helpful afterwards.

Comment by Thottbot

If you're a mage, throw on your molten armor and grab the fish things by the bunch in Serpent Lake and arcane explosion the crap out of them. I got about 100 in a little under an hour doing this.

Comment by Thottbot

With CE. on my second character i did all the available quests but did not hand them in. my plan is to hand them in when i get honored, for a big boost to revered.

Comment by Thottbot

80,64 in front of a little tent across the creek to the east of the inn,.

Comment by Thottbot

If you're leveling an alt who hasn't been to Zangamarsh yet, here's what you should do:

Check the AH every day for 'Unidentified Plant', don't pay more than ~20silver per plant, buy up to 360 of them (should take a few days/weeks). You don't need more than 360.

As soon as you hit level 60, head to Cenarion Refuge in Zangamarsh, DON'T DO ANY QUESTS, turn in all your plants (10 plants per turn-in, so 36 turn-in total), 250 rep per turn-in so: 250 x 36 = 9000 rep. You will go from 0 Neutral to Honored. Then start questing :)

Comment by Thottbot

just a hint
if ur any class that can aoe easily kill the mudfin frenzy fish in lake serpent 44,42 ish you should get 1-2 per group and there easy to kill, i am a mage so i probably have an advantage on them i could see them being annoying for a melee class but meh i could be wrong

Comment by Thottbot

well i just farmed for an hour and got 110 unidentified plant parts from the fish i mentioned above

and alot of other little junk that got me about 40g

not so bad

Comment by Thottbot

TURN IN IS AT 80,64

Comment by Thottbot

Farm the Mudfin Frenzy Fish in Serpent Lake if you have AoE. I used 3 underwater breathing pots and spent 3 hours farming. Got about 350 Unidentified Plant Parts (enough for 35 turn-ins or ~72g at AH), 54 stacks of 20xGrime-encrusted scale (each stack vendors for 1g74s), 17 stacks of 20xRipped Fin (vendors for 1g98s/stack), and tons of grey vendor trash. That's about 80-90g/hour and well worth it for folks with AoE.

Comment by Thottbot

When honored, you cannot indeed turn in. The needed NPC has no more reaction.
But you can sell it away or give at your another guild member, so he can rep up and loot from plant parts.

Comment by Thottbot

I found that aoe'ing the Mudfin Frenzies in the lake near Coilfang Resevoir yields tons of plant samples. I used Shadowfury, Rain of Fire and then Hellfire as a 63 Destruction Warlock. Happy Hunting!

Comment by Thottbot

They can also be found on Umberglow Stingers.
But I'm not sure of the drop rate.

Comment by Thottbot

yeah be careful, i just bought 165 of them being revered and not knowing i couldnt turn them in anymore = [

Comment by Thottbot

The Dead Mire is a good place to farm these, especially for Horde. Swamprat Post is right there for vendor trash and repairs.
Just about every mob in the place drops plant parts, with varying drop rates.
The Bog lords and Giants also drop motes of life to make primals, and you get +15 rep with Sporeggar per kill up to Revered.
The Parched Hydra's drop plant parts as well, and if you're a skinner, bonus.
A tip about farming there - Keep yourself buffed with +30 to all stats (5 mins) by nipping out to the rim of the mire every few minutes to kill a Young Spore Bat. As they die make sure you are within melee range, and they buff you. The buff only lasts 5 minutes, but it's worth it.
Young spore bats also drop plant parts and strange spores, which should be of interest to Hunters, who can cook sporeling snacks to buff their pets.

Comment by bfedorov11

I'm on a popular server and these cost next to nothing. I think it was 40g to buy enough to honored. Well I turned them in and got ZERO of the the other ones. Go figure.

Comment by GhostGhost

If you can buy 360 of these and hand them in before you start questing in zangarmarsh and before you do the last 5 or so quests in hellfire peninsula.

They only work up until honored and most people wont collect them until after they are honored.

it cost me 36gold to get to honored before I started questing which will save me HOURS at max level.

I also did this on my previous character and during questing in blades edge mountains I hit revered.

This is huge and recommended to anyone the money it cost you will save tenfold at max level.

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Unidentified Plant Parts

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is an item that can be looted from mobs and gathered from herbalism nodes and herbable mobs in Zangarmarsh.

Unidentified Plant Parts are used to obtain reputation with the Cenarion Expedition all the way to Honored, via the quest Identify Plant Parts (unlocked by completing Plants of Zangarmarsh). Each turn-in grants 250 Reputation with the Cenarion Expedition. Without doing any other activities that grant Cenarion Expedition reputation, you will need 36 turn-ins of this quest to reach Honored.

Turning in Unidentified Plant Parts also grants you a Package of Identified Plants, which contains a random assortment of herbs, as well as a chance at Uncatalogued Species. These can also be turned in for Reputation with the Cenarion Expedition, but for efficiency, you should hold on to these until you reach Honored with Cenarion Expedition.

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