(This is the page for the location known as the Poison Jungle. You may be looking for the The Poison Jungle (book)|book instead.)

The 'Poison Jungle', also known as 'Never-home' by some LeafWings, was a
jungle 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 Dragons|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

center
Wildlife
'Animals'

  - 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
      - Jaguars
      - Panthers
      - Spider monkeys
      - Tamarin monkeys
  - Reptiles
      - Anacondas
      - Crocodiles
      - Dragonbite vipers
      - Gila monsters
      - Lizards
          - Monitor lizards
      - Snakes
  - Spiders

'Plants'

  - Baobabs
  - Berries
  - Belladonna
  - Bladderworts
  - Blister bush seeds
  - Breath of evil
  - Bright flowers
  - Bromeliads
  - Bushes covered in small pale globules
  - Carnivorous plants
  - Chamomile
  - Cobra lilies
  - Coconuts
  - Ginger root
  - Ferns
  - Fungi
  - Hemlocks
  - Hogweeds
  - Ivy
  - Kudzu vines
  - Macadamia nuts
  - Makahiyas
  - Manchineel fruits
  - Mangoes
  - Morning glories
  - Moss
  - Nettles
  - Night blooms
  - Pitcher plants
  - 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.

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### 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.

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### 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 literature|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.

## References

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