The "mighty pong-pong tree" is not to be trifled with. In The White Lotus' season 3 premiere, health mentor Pam (Morgana O'Reilly) warns the Ratliff family away from the fruit growing on the ...

The fruit of the pong pong tree — a real, poisonous plant — is a major plot point in the Season 3 finale of HBO’s The White Lotus. Ingesting even one seed from the pong pong fruit can be fatal.

The White Lotus creators started planting seeds about Thailand’s deadly pong pong tree in the very first episode. “What am I supposed to do here all week without my phone?” a petulant Saxon ...

The season 3 finale of "The White Lotus" recently aired — with the episode featuring the "pong pong tree," a plant with fruit so poisonous that it is nicknamed "the suicide tree." While viewers ...

WARNING: This article contains major spoilers from The White Lotus. The White Lotus season three may have finished but fans are still left with burning questions - including whether the deadly ...

WARNING: This article contains major spoilers from The White Lotus. The White Lotus season three may have concluded, but viewers are left with lingering questions, including the reality of the ...

one country in which the pong-pong tree grows). Poisoning outside of the countries in which the tree grows is rare, Science Direct adds. The bitter-tasting fruit, whose foul flavour is meant to ...

White Lotus fans will know the Pong Pong seeds were quite the star of the new season. The question people have now is… Is the fruit really that dangerous? Well, at The Field Museum you can get a ...

And yes, it’s completely real; the fruit comes from the cerbera odollam, pong-pong, or “suicide” tree. It has claimed “thousands” of lives before, National Geographic explains.