Horseshoe Shrub

Overview

The Horseshoe Shrub is a terrestrial plant that thrives in warm conditions. Visual identification is easy due to the thick crown of leaves on its bifurcated trunk. The trunk has a thick fibrous core that stores water for its fruiting body.

Shrub Nuts can be harvested from it. Currently, they can be found inside of caves on Delta Island and Marguerit's Greenhouse in the Arctic. Shrub Nuts can be planted to grow more Horseshoe Shrubs, but this will only work if the grow bed is out of water. Shrub Nuts do not deteriorate and can be carried with the player as free (but bulky) medkits.

Databank Entry

The horseshoe shrub is a terrestrial plant that thrives in warm conditions. Visual identification is easy due to the thick crown of leaves on its bifurcated trunk.

The trunk has a thick fibrous core that stores water for its fruiting body.

Assessment: Fruit can be harvested and planted, and could be a sustainable food source.

Shrub Nut

As with other fruit-bearing plants in the game, the Shrub Nut will regrow one-at-a-time every 5 minutes until it is fully laden. The plant holds 10 Shrub Nuts and therefore takes 50 minutes to bear maximum fruit, granting 100 HP, 150 Food, and 50 Water per complete harvest.

As complete dehydration occurs after 33 consecutive minutes from full hydration without drinking, even three fully grown plants cannot produce enough hydration to sustain a human body by themselves.

Gallery

Horseshoe Shrubs in the cave on Delta Island

Generic Plants - by Pavel Goloviy

Trivia

• The Horseshoe Shrub was originally called the Leafy Fruit Plant.
• The Shrub Nut was originally called the Leafy Fruit.
• Design for the shrub nut highly resembles the seed pods of native Australian eucalyptus trees.