Eating this plant's poison fruit affects the heart, can have deadly consequences. The pong-pong tree isn't just fiction. The poison plant from the season finale of "The White Lotus" is real.

The poison fruit from ‘The White Lotus’ is real—and it attacks the heart. The pong pong tree—also known as the “suicide tree”—may be a plot point in the season finale of the HBO series.

One 2004 study in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology credits the pong-pong tree for roughly a death per week in Kerala, India, where 537 people died from the poison between 1989 and 1999.

In ‘The White Lotus,’ the ping pong tree fits right into the show’s vibe. The series loves playing with forbidden fruit themes, and season three takes it literal.

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 ...

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He decides to poison them with the seeds of the pong-pong tree’s fruit rather than face their disappointment over losing their fortune. A hotel worker at the luxury Thai resort has already ...