Purple Lotus

Purple Lotus is a Herb that can be gathered by Herbalists.

Purple Lotus is one of the four types of Lotus and the most common of the four types. Visually, it appears to be a purple flower and a little bit of white/green near the ground.

Source[]

Purple Lotus can typically be found around ~~troll,~~ night elf ~~and titan~~ ruins in Kalimdor ~~and the Eastern Kingdoms~~. Sometimes when picking a Purple Lotus, you will also find a Wildvine. Requires 210 Herbalism to gather.

Found in the zones:

Felwood

Purple Lotus as an Ingredient[]

Purple Lotus is used in the following recipes:

Alchemy[]

Fail:Inv potion 16.png [Magic Resistance Potion]
Elixir of Greater Water Breathing
Wildvine Potion
Fail:Inv misc orb 01.png [Philosopher's Stone]
Fail:Inv potion 83.png [Dreamless Sleep Potion]
Elixir of Dream Vision

Tailoring[]

Fail:Inv misc bag cenarionherbbag.png [Cenarion Herb Bag]

Enchanting[]

Inscription[]

As quest objective[]

Removed in patch 3.0.2.

~~H [60] The Horde Needs Purple Lotus!~~
~~A [60] The Alliance Needs Purple Lotus!~~

Notes[]

Blizzard seems to have done an evil thing with Cataclysm Cataclysm and completely isolated this herb to one zone (Felwood) and removed it from all the other zones.
Here are the zones it used to be found in:
- Tanaris 28.6%
- Azshara 19.1%
- Stranglethorn Vale 18.0%
- The Hinterlands 14.9%
- Feralas 12.2%
- Badlands 4.7%
- Ashenvale 1.6%
- Dire Maul 0.6%
- Zul'Gurub 0.4%

Patch changes[]

Cataclysm Patch 4.0.3 (patch date::15-Nov-2010): Now only gathered from Felwood.
TBC/WotLK Patch 3.0.2 (patch date::14-Oct-2008): No longer a quest objective.

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