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 ...

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 ...

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.

Donation Options Search Search Search Kimberly Hansen, collections manager of flowering plants at the Field Museum, wears gloves to protect her hands as she displays a deadly pong-pong seed ...