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 ...

Found in Southeast Asia and Australia, this 'suicide tree' fruit can cause rapid heart failure and death if ingested. The pong pong tree belongs to the dogbane family, a group of flowering plants ...

leaving him with no option but to eat a bunch of fruits, hotel worker Pam warned him about the deadly pong pong tree, telling him: “That is the fruit of the mighty pong pong tree, and the seeds ...

That’s certainly the case with the pong-pong tree seeds, which she handled using just a pair of latex gloves, explaining that each fruit on the tree has two of the poisonous seeds inside.

Like many characters in the third season of “The White Lotus,” the pong pong tree spends a lot ... the Ratliff family that a poisonous fruit tree is growing in the middle of their habitation ...

"It’s not certain death. But even a single seed has certainly killed people," she said, holding a box containing fruit from the Pong Pong tree. That’s the fruit made famous in "The White Lotus ...

Fruits of the pong pong tree bears seeds roughly the size of peach pits, according to The Economic Times (April 7, 2025). They contain a potent toxin called cerberin, which can be fatal for humans ...

The seeds of the pong pong tree ... In the show, the trees are featured throughout the hotel based in Thailand. A "White Lotus" employee informs the Ratliff family that the fruit's seeds are ...