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Castor Bean
Grow a Garden · Crops · Rarity: Mythical
About Castor Bean
The Castor Bean is a Mythical crop that is introduced in the Mega Safari Harvest Event . The Castor Bean is classified as a Woody , Toxic , Nutty and Safari type crop, meaning it will be affected by items targeted at those specific crop types.
How Castor Bean compares
Figures below are calculated from Castor Bean's own stats and compared against the Mythical crops on this site. They update whenever the underlying data does.
- Yield per minute of growth
- ¢234
- Sell-price rank
- #49 of 82 Mythical crops
- vs. cohort median
- 0.80× median
over a 228-minute grow time
median is ¢67.08K
Castor Bean — In-Depth Analysis
The Castor Bean is a Mythical crop introduced in the Mega Safari Harvest Event, which immediately defines its economics: it is an event-gated seed, so its true cost is your willingness to grind or buy during a limited window rather than a fixed shop price. Mythical rarity signals a high base sell value relative to common produce, meaning even a few clean harvests can return serious Sheckles, but availability is the real bottleneck, not affordability.
What makes the Castor Bean genuinely interesting is its quadruple typing — Woody, Toxic, Nutty and Safari — so it reacts to far more type-targeted tools and mutation sources than an ordinary crop. That breadth is the strategic edge: any gear or event modifier aimed at woody, nutty or Safari plants will catch this bean, letting you stack effects that a single-type crop would miss. Pair that with high-tier mutations like Gold, Rainbow or weather stacks and the per-unit value climbs fast.
Grow the Castor Bean as a mid-to-late event play, once you can protect and mutate it, rather than as an everyday cash crop — its worth lives in the Safari ecosystem around it.