Do you know the first island, well you go there and head into the swomp of the trail close to where the statues are, you may find a few man-eating shrubs, also watch out for man-eating ferns, froglock tuk knights and insatible nibblers.
I've seen a loaf of bread at a vendor near the Necromancer guild hall. Also, you can bake bread (but i haven't done the quest so try it at ur own risk)
He's not joking, I've done that quest, you give them to the iksar hermit, and he gives you a herring, no drop lore item, that does 4 damage delay 38, you take this fish to some REALLY big tree in the emerald jungle and click on the tree with the fish in your cursor, and you get a BIG log, take the log back to the hermit, and you get a bunch of gold, faction with various cleric and paladin guilds across norrath, and The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!
In Cabilis there is a quest for killing these things, you have to get two shrubberies, combine them in a bag, return them to the Iksar, but put a path running down the middle, and...(here's the hard part)....cut down the mightiest tree in the forest WIIIIIIIITH A HERRING!