A list of all known plants within Pyrrhia and Pantala.
Pyrrhian plants[]
All known plants of Pyrrhia.
Medicinal plants[]
- Smokeberries: a type of berry found in the Rainforest Kingdom. They are used by RainWing medics to put patients to a deep sleep and cause hallucinations.[1]
- Swordleaf root: a root that helps with headaches, used by SandWings.[2]
- Brightsting cactus is a cactus whose juice can cure SandWing venom, found all over the Kingdom of Sand.[3] It is often sold by merchants in the Scorpion Den.[4]
Other plants[]
- Dragonflame cacti: Cacti that can explode when they come in contact with fire[5] and grow only in high altitudes.[6] They are spike-studded spheres that have been described to appear odd-looking and brownish-greenish-pink in color. According to one SkyWing in Possibility, they are quite difficult to grow,[7] and they shoot little balls of thorns when they explode.[8] The seed pods, which are about the size of a rainforest frog, are blackish-brown, with a bright green interior and sharp thorny exterior.[6] They were first seen in The Lost Heir and formally named in Moon Rising used by Sora in the history cave's explosion.
Pantalan plants[]
All known plants of Pantala.
Medicinal plants[]
- Corpse flowers: a type of plant that can be crushed to emit a horrible smell, used to wake deeply sleeping dragons. They are described as "shiny red, mottled with yellow streaks and curved in around itself so there was a hollow in the middle and a point at one end."
- Several dark green leaves are chewed up and spit onto the Librarian's bullet ant wound to relieve the stinging.[9]
Poisonous plants[]
- Fumes Emitting Flower: A flower "the size of a stingray and the color of moonlight," capable of knocking a dragon out with deadly fumes when crushed.[10] This was used by Cricket to knock out a HiveWing guard in order for her, Sundew, and Blue to sneak into Wasp Hive in The Lost Continent.
- Waxy Plant: A branch with waxy red leaves that emits a suffocating, paralyzing, reddish smoke when burnt. This was used when Sundew, Cricket, and Blue tried to escape the Temple of Clearsight (located in Wasp Hive) with the Book of Clearsight in The Lost Continent.
- Manchineels: A poisonous tree. If one stands under the tree when it is raining, poison will drip down, causing skin to blister and, according to Sundew, one would most likely die from it. The fruit is also poisonous, sending a dragon insane and later killing them when eaten.
Carnivorous plants[]
- Sundews: a large plant with long, tentacle-like leaves covered in red bristles. At the end of each bristle is a sticky bead. The prey of a sundew gets stuck to the sticky beads and is slowly pulled in by the plant to be devoured. They are noted not to be offensive predators, but to be quite sinister when spoken to via leafspeak.
- Venus dragon-trap: a plant that grows in the Poison Jungle, resembling the real-life Venus flytrap. It attracts and consumes dragons using an alluring smell. It looks like an enormous pink open book[11] and has a dark green body with a dark blue interior.
- Pitcher plants: plants that are like large bowls with acid and sharp hairs. They are seen when Nettle falls into one but is later cut out by Willow and Sundew. Pitcher plants are described to have a smug personality when contacted by leafspeak.[12]
- Bladderworts: aquatic plants with hollow sacks beneath their roots. These sacks may be triggered to open by prey. Once opened, low pressure in the sac sucks the prey in to be digested.
- Roridula: plants that have a have a thin brown stem supporting numerous green needle-like leaves pointing in all directions from the top of the stem. They have bristles on each leaf that capture prey landing on them.
- Waterwheels: underwater vines with sets of seven stems set along the vine that are equally spaced. At the end of each stem, there is a jaw similar to the Venus dragon-trap, which operates similarly, trapping prey that disturbs bristles on the inside.
Other plants[]
- Breath of Evil: A plant that, when a dragon consumes it - either through ingestion, injection, or inhaling the smoke of the burnt plant - will be able to be controlled by the Othermind. However, since the consciousness of the othermind was destroyed, there is no more mind control.
- Moss: Sundew has a type of moss that can "soak up an entire pond," meaning it can hold a significant amount of water.[13]
Gallery[]
Art by Mike Holmes, from the Wings of Fire Graphic Novels
Brightsting cactus
Dragonflame cactus
Dragonflame cactus seedpod
Art by Joy Ang, from the covers of the Wings of Fire Novels
Sundew
Sundews
Pitcher plant
Venus dragon-trap
Venus dragon-trap
Brightsting cactus
Art by Scholastic, from the Scholastic HomeBase website
Brightsting cactus
Brightsting cactus
References[]
- ↑ Moon Rising, page 94
- ↑ Moon Rising, page 105
- ↑ The Hidden Kingdom, page 144
- ↑ The Brightest Night, page 54
- ↑ Escaping Peril, page 100
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Moon Rising, page 206
- ↑ Escaping Peril, page 99
- ↑ Escaping Peril, page 103
- ↑ The Lost Continent, page 218
- ↑ The Lost Continent, page 191
- ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 12
- ↑ The Poison Jungle, page 164
- ↑ The Hive Queen, page 23