Plant Species Z Fruit

A fruit thrown like a grenade

Plant Species Z Fruit is a glowing fruit in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended that survivors throw like a grenade. In the game's words it is "Bioluminescent Fruit that provides a flash of Charge lighting". It deals no damage. When it hits something it bursts into a flash of light much like a flashbang. Survivors and lesser creatures close by that face it are blinded; for humans the effect lasts about 10 seconds, and a blinded creature cannot be mounted.

Who ignores the flash

Some creatures are not blinded at all: Alpha Creatures, all bosses, the Giganotosaurus, Reapers, the Nameless and every Charge pet. Reapers and Nameless still respond to the charge light the fruit gives off, though. Most higher-level creatures also shake off the flash sooner. The ARK Wiki adds that on official PvE servers the fruit has no effect on players or on wild, allied or enemy creatures.

Escaping a grab and a knockout in ASA

Thrown at the ground while a Karkinos or Kaprosuchus holds you, the fruit stuns the creature, which makes it drop you and gives you time to move away. In ASA it also serves to knock out the Yi Ling.

Growing it and carrying it

The ARK Wiki names one source: growing Plant Species Z, which yields the fruit once fully grown. The fruit arrived with Aberration in patch 275.0, and the wiki also lists it on Fjordur, Genesis: Part 2, Crystal Isles and Genesis: Part 1. It stacks to 100 and spoils after 6 hours. The wiki and our ASA row give a weight of 5, which makes a full stack 500; our ASE row lists 1.