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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 ...

The show might be called “The White Lotus” but it’s the flowering pong-pong tree that’s getting all the attention after that explosive Season 3 finale Sunday night. Note: There are Season ...

Remember the tree you saw in White Lotus Season 3 — the one weighed down with deadly Pong Pong fruit? Yes, that creepy looking fruit is very real. The show may have just wrapped its finale, but fans ...

Kimberly Hansen, Collections Manager of Flowering Plants, The Field Museum, joins John Williams to talk about her work at the Field Museum, the now famous poison pong-pong tree plant that was featured ...

there’s no doubt he succeeded in making a star of the pong-pong tree. Or, more accurately, the seeds of the pong-pong tree’s fruit, which played a key role in a pair of pivotal scenes. And yes, the ...

Like many characters in the third season of “The White Lotus,” the pong pong tree spends a lot of its air time hanging by the pool — but it ended up being quite the star of the show.