Pingala Seeds
Harvesting
- Category
- Flora
- Sub-type
- plant
- Output
- View commodity
Where to find
Where this harvestable spawns, sourced from game data and the Star Citizen wiki.
Also available as a Commodity
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- Category
- Natural
- Display type
- Natural Materials
- Unit size
- 350 µSCU
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
Pingala seeds are a hand-harvested flora collectible in Star Citizen — the seeds of the "pingala," an ornamental plant whose every feature follows the golden ratio, prized by collectors and sold as a low-value trade commodity in the Pyro system.
What it is
Pingala seeds are a harvestable flora item — the seeds of the pingala plant. In lore the pingala is described as visually striking because every aspect of its structure follows the golden ratio (the Fibonacci-derived proportion seen in real-world sunflowers and pinecones), which makes it a "visually arresting" ornamental plant. The seeds themselves are the collectible item players gather. They are catalogued as a Size 1 (S1) harvestable miscellaneous item with a very small physical footprint (roughly 0.09 m tall, 0.10 m long, 0.14 m wide; an occupancy on the order of 900 µSCU as listed by the wiki, while marketplace trackers round the carryable unit to ~0.001 µSCU).
Gameplay use
Pingala seeds function as a low-tier trade commodity / hand-collectible rather than a crafting or medical item. They are gathered by hand and carried as inventory, then sold at vendor shop terminals for a fixed aUEC value. There is no documented medical/consumable effect and no confirmed crafting recipe that consumes them; their in-fiction value is as a collector's botanical curiosity. (As Star Citizen's crafting and base-building systems mature, items like this may gain ingredient roles, but no such use is documented at the time of research.)
Value & where to sell
Marketplace tracking lists Pingala Seeds at a flat base price of about 250 aUEC, consistent across the vendors that stock them. Recorded shop-terminal locations (all in the Pyro system) include: - Bloom — Shepherd's Rest (shop terminal) - Bloom — The Yard (shop terminal) - Terminus — Bullock's Reach (shop terminal) - Terminus — Kinder Plots (shop terminal) Note these prices and vendor lists are volatile and patch-dependent; verify against a live tracker (cstone Universal Item Finder, UEX, SC Trade Tools) before relying on them. At the time of research Pingala Seeds did not appear in UEX's main harvestables commodity listing, so coverage is thin.
Sources:finder.cstone.spaceuexcorp.space
Where to harvest
Documentation of a specific wild harvest biome is thin. The plant and its seeds are associated with the Pyro system, where the known vendor terminals that buy/stock them are located (Bloom and Terminus). The pingala is noted as extremely difficult to cultivate in greenhouse/controlled environments, implying it is gathered from the wild rather than farmed. Exact planet/moon spawn biomes for hand-harvesting were not pinned down in available sources.
Source
The seeds come from the pingala plant (flora). It is not an animal body-part — there is no source creature. The pingala is an ornamental plant defined by its golden-ratio geometry.
Sources:starcitizen.tools
Grades & variants
No grades or variants are documented for Pingala Seeds. Unlike graded harvestables (e.g. pearls or fangs sold Grade A/AA/AAA or by maturity), Pingala Seeds appear as a single standard item at a single price point.
Effects
No consumable, medical, or buff/debuff effects are documented. The item is a collectible/trade good, not an edible or medicinal flora.
Sources:starcitizen.tools
Lore & trivia
In the Star Citizen universe the pingala is celebrated for its mathematical beauty: every aspect of the plant follows the golden ratio, producing a strikingly proportioned form. Its seeds are highly sought after by plant collectors, but attempts to cultivate the pingala in greenhouse environments have proven extremely difficult — making the seeds scarce and collectible. The name "pingala" nods to Acharya Pingala, the ancient Indian scholar whose work on prosody contains an early description of what is now known as the Fibonacci sequence — the mathematical basis of the golden ratio the plant embodies, a fitting easter-egg for a plant defined by that proportion.
Sources:starcitizen.tools