(This is the page for the book titled "The Poison Jungle." You may be
looking for the Poison Jungle|location instead.)  'The Poison Jungle' is
the thirteenth book in the New York Times bestselling series Wings of Fire, and the third book in the third arc.
The main protagonist is Sundew. The book was officially released on July
30th, 2019.[1] The book cover was released on January 31st, 2019.

The Poison Jungle is preceded by The Hive Queen and is followed by The
Dangerous Gift.

## Summary

Some secrets are deadly.

It's no secret that Sundew wants to destroy the HiveWings. It's her
life's mission to exact revenge on the tribe that tried to wipe out the
LeafWings and ripped every tree from the surface of Pantala.

Every tree, that is, except the wild and dangerous Poison Jungle, where
the surviving LeafWings have been hiding since the Tree Wars|war.
Hiding, plotting, and waiting for a Dragons|dragon like Sundew, who is
uniquely qualified to bring down the Hives.

There are dark secrets in the jungle, though — some that Sundew is
keeping, and some that she's only just beginning to discover. And now
that a new war is upon them, Sundew and her friends must unearth the
breath of evil|oldest secret in the jungle — even if what they find has
the power to destroy them all.

## Quote on Back of Hardcover

"It's easier when you grow up knowing what to avoid," Sundew said.
"Nowadays we only lose a few dragons a year to the carnivorous plants."

"The what now?" Swordtail said. "CARNIVOROUS WHATS?"

"Yeah, you will probably get eaten," Sundew said with a shrug.

"Do we have to go to the place with certain death?" Blue asked.

"Yes, because it's my home," Sundew said. "And also the only place
you'll be safe."

## Dedication

To Hazel

## Plot

### Prologue

The prologue was set before the Burning of Bloodworm Hive and showed the
dragons who had planned it: Bryony, Hemlock, Pokeweed, and Grayling
behind one of Bloodworm Hive's greenhouses in the middle of the night
moments before burning it. They talked about the fates of the SilkWings,
worrying about them, but ultimately decided to go ahead with burning
Bloodworm Hive. Grayling thanked Bryony for caring about the SilkWings
enough to fight the HiveWings for them, and Bryony felt guilty, thinking
about how they had planned this only as revenge, without thinking of the
SilkWings at all.

### Part One: Roots and Sprouts

Sundew led Blue, Cricket (who was holding Bumblebee), and Swordtail
through the Poison Jungle to the PoisonWing village|LeafWing village,
trying to protect them from the dangerous flora. Swordtail asked Sundew
if the rumors about the jungle's dangers were real, and Sundew responded
that they were. She also noted that Queen Wasp had sent expeditions to
the Poison Jungle — the rumors came from the HiveWings who survived and
returned to tell the tale. She also said that Wasp once tried to burn
down the Poison Jungle but failed. She also stated that the dragons who
came to burn the Poison Jungle all died. Blue, Cricket, and Swordtail
continued to argue about entering the jungle, but Sundew said that they
do not have a choice. She warned the group not to touch anything that
she had not touched first. They took a passage through some makahiya and
moved across a branch, but Swordtail leaned down to sniff at a pink
flower that turned out to be a Plants#Carnivorous plants|Venus
dragon-trap underneath them. It pulled him off of the branch and
swallowed him whole.

Cricket and Blue panicked, while Sundew was angry that Swordtail did not
listen. Blue attempted to get Swordtail out, but Sundew pulled him back
and told him not to touch. She shouted at Swordtail to stop thrashing
since the plant would release him if he were motionless, but he did not
hear her and continued to struggle. Cricket suggested slicing the Venus
dragon-trap open to get Swordtail out, but Sundew told her that they had
adapted to resist attacks from dragon claws and grow in clusters, so if
somebody tries to help, they will also get eaten. Before she could do
think of anything to do, Blue shot a strand of flamesilk at the Venus
dragon-trap. Sundew yelled at Blue and then put out half of the fire
with water from nearby bromeliad leaves. In an attempt to put out the
rest of the fire, she used her leafspeak to grow a chokecherry tree up
to her height. She grabbed the chokecherries from the tree and smeared
them on burning branches, stopping the fire from spreading any further.
Cricket helped by getting more water, and eventually, the fire was put
out completely. The Venus dragon-trap holding Swordtail was dead, so
Blue flew down and attempted to cut open the plant. Sundew yelled at
Blue for nearly setting the jungle on fire, but they got Swordtail out
of the dead plant. Sundew, Blue, Cricket, Swordtail, and Bumblebee got
back on the branch to avoid the other carnivorous plants around them.
Sundew yelled at the group again, reminding them that the Poison Jungle
was dangerous and they should all listen to her. They continued along
for a while, with Blue feeling guilty and Swordtail muttering under his
breath. Cricket finally asked whether Sundew made the tree grow, and she
was forced to reveal her power.

They continued towards the LeafWing village until Sundew heard Mandrake.
She went over and saw him trying to kill a panther while his father,
Wolfsbane, and his sister, Nettle, watched disapprovingly. Sundew made a
thorn bush grow in the panther's way to kill it and revealed herself to
the three LeafWings. Blue, Cricket, and Swordtail came down, and
Wolfsbane and Nettle became hostile, but Sundew explained that Blue and
the others were helpful. Nettle and Wolfsbane left to inform Commander
Belladonna, while Mandrake volunteered to stay with the group. He
introduced himself as Sundew's fiance, which prompted questioning from
Cricket as to whether he was the one true love that Sundew had mentioned
previously. Sundew was mad at herself for saying that to Cricket. They
arrived at the LeafWing village and discovered that the flamesilk used
to burn the hive was Blue's. This devastated Blue because he had been
against the burning all along. After Belladonna treated them like
prisoners, Cricket and Blue started to wonder if they could trust
Sundew.

Near midnight, Sundew snuck out, across the border towards the SapWing
village. She remembered meeting her girlfriend Willow for the first
time, and after some time, Willow arrived at their designated meeting
spot. Sundew told her about her mission and the plant that Queen Wasp
used for her mind control. This shocked Willow, and the old LeafWing
queen, Sequoia, appeared out of the undergrowth. She asked Willow and
Sundew to follow her to the SapWing village, where Sundew told the queen
everything and showed her the mind control plant. Queen Sequoia asked
them to meet with her in the morning, so Willow took Sundew to meet the
two SeaWings that she had rescued, Tsunami and Turtle. There was a
SilkWing there as well, who turned out to be Swordtail's sister, Io.
Sundew met them and found out that they came because of Luna, who had
washed up on the shore of Pyrrhia. Belladonna arrived, and the queen
invited her to a meeting. Belladonna brought Cricket and Swordtail along
with her, and Swordtail was finally reunited with Io. Tsunami told them
that Luna was alright, while Belladonna and Queen Sequoia argued about
the future of the tribe. The LeafWing queen got down to business and
asked, "Have you ever heard of the Legend of the Hive?"

### Part Two: Tendrils And Teeth

Queen Sequoia began to tell the legend. When dragons arrived on Pantala
for the first time, they would be attacked by swarms of insects every
night, all moving as one and seemingly united by one mind. After many
deaths, the dragons discovered that cutting back the breath of evil, the
vine that covered the entire continent, gradually made areas safe.
Eventually, the plant had been removed from almost the whole continent.
After telling the story, the queen asked Cricket, Willow, and Sundew to
venture into the most dangerous part of the jungle and find Hawthorn, a
LeafWing who guarded the small amount of breath of evil still growing in
the jungle. Belladonna ordered Sundew to bring Nettle and Mandrake in
addition to her choice of traveling companions. On the trip, they came
across the most dangerous obstacles of the journey so far, forcing them
to fly across a lake. They all managed to cross until Sundew and
Bumblebee were the only ones left. Sundew got close to the other side of
the lake, but Bumblebee screamed and landed on Sundew's face. Blinded,
Sundew was trapped by a sundew. After a little searching, she was able
to attract an enormous tsetse fly and distract the plant. They made it
the rest of the way across and discovered that the next part of their
journey would be through the Den of Vipers. After entering this area,
they spotted dragonbite vipers above them, behind them, and on their
sides staring at them. They were not dead but were paralyzed in place.
Once they were almost to their destination, the vipers all moved and
cornered them. It turned out that the snakes had been mind-controlled by
Hawthorn, who appeared and invited them in for tea.

They talked to Hawthorn, who told them that he was the one who gave the
breath of evil to Queen Wasp, and that was why he had been exiled. He
also said that he had found an antidote, which he called the heart of
salvation. They convinced Hawthorn to come with them to give the
antidote to the arriving HiveWing army, with Hawthorn agreeing on the
condition that he brought a few snakes and his favorite carving — the
seed of the breath of evil.

### Part Three: Leaves in a Storm

Nettle, Sundew, and Cricket left Bumblebee with Tsunami and traveled
toward the LeafWing camp with Hawthorn's antidote, a root called the
heart of salvation. When they arrived, they talked with Queen Sequoia
and Belladonna about their plans to distribute the heart of salvation
into the HiveWing army. They asked Blue to let them use his flamesilk to
burn the root, hoping that fumes would have the same effect as consuming
the root. He agreed, but on the terms that Belladonna and Queen Sequoia
would not use any of it to harm another dragon.

While Blue and Swordtail went with the other LeafWings, Sundew slept for
the night. When she awoke, she broke the news to Mandrake that she did
not want to marry him, but he let her know that he already knew. The two
decided to grow more of the antidote. As Sundew tried to reach it with
her leafspeak, she felt some barrier, making it harder for her to talk
to it, and when it finally grew, it turned into the breath of evil,
whose premature root was disguised as the antidote. Sundew told Mandrake
to stop, but it was too late — the fire had already been lit.

As they panicked, Hawthorn appeared on the other side of the river with
Willow beside him and a dragonbite viper poised at her neck, ready to
strike. As Sundew, Mandrake, and Cricket landed, vines wrapped around
their talons, trapping them. Sundew realized that the plant was talking
through Hawthorn as he tried to soothe them into taking the breath of
evil. Cricket tried to distract Hawthorn by asking how the plant worked
as Sundew tried to find something that could help them escape. Sundew
found a sundew in between Willow and Hawthorn and used her leafspeak to
make it eat the viper and Hawthorn. It worked, but once Hawthorn was
caught, he tried to strangle Cricket. At the same time, he attempted to
use his leafspeak to free himself. Before he could do anything, though,
Willow stabbed him with an enormous thorn, killing him instantly.

They cut the vine, which retreated away from the dragons. The group
rushed to the village and told others about the grave situation with the
newly-named othermind. Queen Hazel, looking through the Book of
Clearsight for help, cut open the binding and found a secret page. It
turned out to be a map of the route from Pantala to Pyrrhia, using small
uninhabited islands to rest along the way. They hurriedly planned to use
this discovery to escape the continent. Io came in, asking to save the
rest of the SilkWings, and Hazel reluctantly lets her have a
quickly-made copy of the map. Io, Cinnabar, and several other SilkWings
prepared to leave, but before they took off, Sundew asked them to bring
Hemlock, Bryony, and Pokeweed with them. Suddenly, a LeafWing guard
crashed into the pavilion with the news that Wasp and her army were
setting the jungle on fire.

Hazel ordered her tribe to evacuate to the coast, and Mandrake organized
the PoisonWings into groups for evacuation. Willow approached Sundew and
asked why she was not managing her tribe herself, and Sundew told her
that she believed Mandrake would be better at the task at hand. After
some prodding from Willow, Sundew admits that she does not want to run
away from the othermind and was extremely angry about it. She was caught
off guard when Willow said that she was also angry about everything that
had happened to them. In a decisive moment, she told Sundew that not
every dragon deserves her anger, despite Sundew's protests. She finally
agreed with Willow, and the two lovers professed their feelings. Willow
mentioned that Sundew needed to run to prevent the othermind from using
her leafspeak to spread. The two dragons then took off with the rest of
the LeafWing tribe, following the map towards Pyrrhia. Sundew thought
about how they would come back to Pantala once they found help and dealt
with the othermind once and for all.

### Epilogue

Jerboa III|Jerboa flew down to meet with Snowfall somewhere south of the
Great Ice Cliff and was criticized by Snowfall for being late. Jerboa
landed and responded by saying that Queen Glacier had usually been the
later one. She noticed Snowfall flinch at the comment and wondered if
the young queen might have a heart after all. Snowfall then requested
that Jerboa make the Cliff surround her Ice Kingdom|kingdom to stop an
invasion from another direction. The ancient animus told her in no
uncertain words that no one would invade the Ice Kingdom, but she
insisted someone may want to attack the IceWings like Darkstalker. She
told Jerboa that one of her scouts had spotted the hundreds of Pantalan
dragons fleeing from the othermind, and was convinced they want to
invade. Jerboa reminded her that she should not assume they want to
invade and that maybe they needed help. She refused Snowfall's request,
the queen ruefully responding that Glacier could have done so much more
with Jerboa's power and that she should have told Snowfall about her
earlier. Jerboa said that she is not her animus and revealed that animus
magic had stopped working all over the continent. When Snowfall asked
for proof, Jerboa enchanted a stick to make anything it touches green,
but it did not affect herself or the rock next to her. Snowfall called
her useless and flew away in a rage, and Jerboa was satisfied by this,
thinking, "Completely useless, […] Yes. Just like I've always wanted."

## Mistakes

  - On the cover,[2] Sundew lacks the golden spots on her wing tips.
  - On the cover, all of the LeafWings lack a leaf-shaped tail-tip
    except Sundew.[3]
  - On the cover, the Venus dragon‐traps do not appear in clusters[4]
    like they should.
  - The phrase the other hand is used instead of the other talon.
  - Bryony says that the dragons burning Bloodworm Hive will be using
    palm fronds from Pantala#Dragonfly Bay|Dragonfly Bay. However,
    there should be no palm trees in the Dragonfly Bay, as the only ones
    left are in the Poison Jungle.
  - When telling the Legend of the Hive, Queen Sequoia says, "Clearsight
    came along and her ancestors split them into two tribes," when she
    meant descendants.
  - Willow mentions scavengers, even though Pantalans are not shown to
    know about them.

## Trivia

  - When the book was ordered online from Barnes and Noble, it came with
    a set of three free buttons: one with a headshot of Sundew, one with
    a headshot of Sunny, and one with a yellow version of the Wings of
    Fire logo.[5][6]

## International Releases

  - 'German:' Wings of Fire. Der Giftdschungel (November 2021)
  - 'Russian:' Драконья Сага.Отравленные джунгли (January 2021)
  - 'France:' Les Royaume de Feu.Le Soufle du Mal (April 1, 2021)