Chinese Potato Plant (Subnautica)

Template:Infobox:Fauna Flora The Chinese Potato Plant is a life form belonging to the flora category. It can be harvested for Chinese Potatoes. A Chinese Potato Plant can be found in a planter near the Abandoned Seabase on the Floater Island.

It can also be found in a planter pot in a mountain top seabase, though it is not able to be scanned, but now harvestable. The bulbs found at its roots give you food and water.

Appearance

The Chinese Potato Plant appears to be a long grass with Chinese Potatoes at the roots. It also has several bioluminescent bulbs at the top of each stalk. The bulbs are yellow, and the leaves are assorted shades of green.

Data Entry

The Chinese Potato is common throughout the China Territories, where synthetic foods are still stigmatized, and there remain large tracts of arable land on which to grow fresh produce. Genetically designed prior to the Expansion, this plant is highly adaptable to different environments, and a staple of new colonies galaxy-wide.

Assessment: Edible staple

Gallery

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  Close up

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  A Chinese Potato Plant next to a Grub Basket

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  Chinese Potato Plant's model

Trivia

• The Chinese Potato Plant is currently the only organism on Planet 4546B that comes from earth, aside from the player him/herself. Therefore, the player character is more closely related to the plant than he/she is to any other organism in the game.