Poison Jungle

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The **Poison Jungle**, also known as **Never-home** by some LeafWings, was a forest located at the northeastern corner of Pantala that served as the LeafWings' secret home after the Tree Wars. It formed Pantala's "head." In the prologue of *The Dangerous Gift*, it was revealed that the jungle was burned down when the othermind manipulated Blue into using his flamesilk to do so.

## Description

The Poison Jungle was the only forest located on the continent after the Tree Wars. The Poison Jungle was unable to be removed, as the plants were too dangerous and thick for any HiveWings to penetrate. It is described to have various deadly and poisonous plants, such as sundews, Venus dragon-traps, cobra lilies, waterwheels, and the quarantined othermind. The banks are described as lined by "thick, oozing mud," which were infested with snakes. The river that marked the jungle's boundary is called the Snarling River. Further inside of the Poison Jungle are the PoisonWing and SapWing Villages, the homes of the PoisonWing faction of the LeafWing tribe, and the SapWing faction of the LeafWing tribe.

The Poison Jungle also has dangerous wildlife, as evidenced by the insects and myriapods that Sundew carries with her (as well as larger creatures). Sundew also points out how only the strongest can survive, and that is why animals like panthers are huge and big enough to scare away even dragons, like Mandrake when he was trying to catch one. Even creatures that are usually small are much larger in the Poison Jungle, such as tsetse flies, as one was described to be three times bigger than Bumblebee.

## Notable Features

### SapWing village

The SapWing village was the home of the SapWing faction of the LeafWing tribe. Its outer perimeter was marked by an absence of carnivorous and poisonous plants, and within the village, treehouses were scattered high in trees. At the center was a large tree house spiraling all the way around an enormous baobab, wound with dark-purple-and-white clematis vines around the columns and with bright red trumpet creepers dangling from the ceiling. The top level of the queen's tree house had a smooth polished wood floor and a mahogany throne.

Hazel also owned a room in the queen's tree house. Sundew describes it as "bright and airy, studded with windows and balconies so the breeze flew through it." It is sheltered by an overhanging roof of large round leaves with bright red trumpet creeper flowers poking through the roof. Three desks take up "half of the room," and are covered in a mess of bookbinding supplies made from jungle ingredients. It contains a hammock and has small paper dragons and clouds hung from every leaf stem. According to Sundew, there was a "little blizzard of them flying overhead." Below her room, there is a kitchen level in the palace.

### PoisonWing village

The PoisonWing village was the home of the PoisonWing faction of the LeafWing tribe. It appeared as a huge, living emerald-and-chocolate-colored dome made of interlocking vines and shrubs that "soared up and between the trees," which was constructed via leafspeak. Past the main gate, it had a detoxification chamber where water was dumped on entering dragons to wash away any seeds to stop the plants from invading the village. Inside the dome, the light was murky green, and had open air up to the roof of the dome. The dome itself was high enough for dragons to fly, and for dragonets to learn how to fly without the dangers of the jungle. The dome contained woven nests where dragons sleep, a weapons storehouse, and food nets.

### Snarling River

The Snarling River marked the jungle's border and is on the "neck" of Pantala. It is described as dark and swift-flowing. Pitcher plants and cobra lilies grow thick along the shores of both sides. According to Sundew, every time she flew nearby the river, more plants have extended their tendrils across the water, more twisted little thorn trees starting to muscle their way up on the wrong side.

### Gullet River

The Gullet River is where the throat would be if Pantala were a dragon. Swimming in it is described as feeling like swimming into a very large, shark-like mouth. The water has a foggy green haze, the bottom is made of silt and oozing mud, and it is lined with tangled trees and sharp, jutting rocks.

### Unnamed Pond

The pond is located in a clearing between the SapWing and PoisonWing villages. A boulder "as smooth as obsidian" sticks up out of the water near the middle of the pond. Some of the far trees leaned down toward it like parent dragons feeding their little ones. Overhead there are Venus dragon-traps. Sundew and Willow met at this pond in secret for four years. According to Sundew, the clearing was probably the most colorful spot in the jungle, as it has clusters of flowers scattered all over it that Sundew had grown them for Willow in the past three years. Sundew would leave a jade frog on the boulder to tell Willow that she was there.

### Eye of the jungle

The Eye of the jungle was where the eye would be if Pantala were a dragon. The Den of Vipers, an area home to the most dragonbite vipers on Pantala, surrounds it. It contained many dangerous plants, including hogweeds and kudzu vines, but is known for holding the breath of evil. Between the den of vipers and the SapWing Village is a lake with numerous bladderworts, sundews, and a manchineel grove. It was incredibly hard to reach and was only accessible through a map drawn by Queen Sequoia.

### Hawthorn's home

Hawthorn's home is a house in the Eye of the jungle belonging to Hawthorn. All the low-hanging vines around it have been cut back, along with sections of the canopy overhead, leaving space for grass to grow. A quarter of the clearing is covered by a small vegetable garden. In the center of the clearing, there is a house shaped like a cell in a hive and is made of wood, with pale red flax curtains for the door and windows. One end of the porch is a small woodworking studio. Inside is breezy, warm, and full of rose-colored light from the sun through the curtains. It is all in one room, but with a high ceiling and lots of space. Shelves are gathered on every wall, and perched atop are some of Hawthorn's carvings; wooded dragons, snakes, trees, and orangutans. Sundew noted that one of his carvings of dragon heads looked a lot like Sequoia.

## Flora/Fauna

* Amphibians
	+ Tree frogs
* Birds
	+ Cockatoo
	+ Seagulls
	+ Starlings
* Earthworms
* Fish
* Insects
	+ Bombardier beetles
	+ Bullet ants
	+ Caterpillars
	+ Cicadas
	+ Fire ants
	+ Grasshoppers
	+ Mosquitoes
	+ Pillbugs
	+ River snails
	+ Shining beetles
	+ Tree slugs
	+ Tsetse flies
	+ Venomous centipedes
* Mammals
	+ Bats
	+ Capybaras
	+ Panthers
	+ Spider monkeys
	+ Tamarin monkeys
* Reptiles
	+ Anacondas
	+ Crocodiles
	+ Dragonbite vipers
	+ Gila monsters
	+ Lizards
		- Monitor lizards
	+ Snakes
* Spiders

**Plants**
* Baobabs
* Berries
* Bladderworts
* Blister bush seeds
* Breath of evil
* Bright flowers
* Bushes covered in small pale globules
* Carnivorous plants
* Chamomile
* Cobra lilies
* Coconuts
* Ginger root
* Fungi
* Hemlocks
* Hogweeds
* Ivy
* Kudzu vines
* Macadamia nuts
* Makahiyas
* Manchineel fruits
* Morning glories
* Nettles
* Night blooms
* Reeds
* Roridulas
* Sandbox tree fruit
* Seed pods
* Sleep lilies
* Smoke leaves
* Strangler vines
* Sundews
* Thorn balls
* Thorn bushes
* Trumpet creepers
* Trumpet flowers
* Tubers
* Venus dragon-traps
* Vines
* Violets
* Waterwheels
* Trees
	+ Chokecherry trees
	+ Manchineels
	+ Sandbox trees

## History

### Pre-Series

During the Tree Wars, the LeafWings found the nearly extinct breath of evil inside it, and slipped it into Queen Wasp's food. After the Tree Wars, the LeafWings fled to the Poison Jungle and their two factions built two villages there, and Hawthorn was exiled to the quarantined section of the breath of evil.

### The Lost Continent Prophecy

#### *The Hive Queen*

In the epilogue, Tsunami and Turtle enter the Poison Jungle through Gullet river. Willow found them and saved them from a snake.

#### *The Poison Jungle*

The Poison Jungle was the main setting of the book and was home to the remaining LeafWings. Sundew and her friends arrived for safety and to find allies. There, they learned about the breath of evil from Sequoia and set out to find Hawthorn in the Eye of the jungle. The breath of evil resided within that area, where Sundew was tricked into using it as an antidote to Wasp's mind-control. It was too late for Sundew to stop the spread once the root had been burned by Blue. Hawthorn attempted to stop Sundew, Cricket, and Mandrake from warning the others, but was killed by Willow. The remaining LeafWings and SilkWings evacuate as the Poison Jungle was set on fire by Wasp and her army.

#### *The Dangerous Gift*

In the prologue, Swordtail woke up and briefly remembered how the jungle burned down. Later, Cricket thought out loud about how they wanted to aim for somewhere more south than The Poison Jungle to land in Pantala.

### Field Guides

#### *A Guide to the Dragon World*

In the LeafWing chapter, Hazel provided Cricket with information about the dangers of the Poison Jungle and how to survive living in it. Hazel also mentioned the Poison Jungle when she explained how the LeafWings attempted to bring their books with them when they fled to the jungle. The jungle was also mentioned several times by Linden, Sequoia, and Belladonna in their letters to and from one another.

## Gallery

Wings of Fire 13 Full Edited.jpgThe Poison Jungle on the cover of *The Poison Jungle*, by Joy AngPoisonJungleClose.pngThe Poison Jungle from the map of Pantala, by Mike SchleyPoison Jungle map.jpgMap of the Poison Jungle from *A Guide to the Dragon World*, by Mike Schley
## References

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1. ↑  *The Hive Queen*, page 283
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3. ↑  *The Poison Jungle*, page 101
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15. ↑  *The Hive Queen*, epilogue
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