"So don't eat it." After its role in the finale, fans are curious about whether this fruit (and the tree it grows on) is real — and if its reputation is as deadly as we're told. Read on to learn ...

The mysterious pong pong tree plays a crucial role in the finale. The tree had been subtly introduced earlier in the season, beginning with a conversation in the first episode. When Saxon ...

Though the plot of the The White Lotus and the finale may be fictional, the consequences of eating fruit from the pong pong tree are very real and just as deadly as Mike White’s show makes it ...

Below, we take a closer look at the real-world facts of this tree, as well as the truth about what would happen should a person actually ingest a signature Ratliff piña colada. In short ...

Though the plot of the The White Lotus and the finale may be fictional, the consequences of eating fruit from the pong pong tree are very real and just as deadly as Mike White’s show makes it out to ...

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 repel animals from eating it, has been used as ...

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. But what is the ...

Not only is the Pong Pong tree real but Chicago's Field Museum has samples of the poison seeds this season of the show have made infamous. The museum keeps the Cerbera odollam seeds stored in a ...

Is the poisonous fruit in The White Lotus season 3 real? The poisonous tree featured in The White Lotus season 3, known as the Cerbera Odollam, is indeed real. Native to Southeast Asia and the ...

Is that tree real? Is the fruit real? Is it deadly? What is pong-pong?" In "The White Lotus" season three finale, financier Timothy Ratliff spends much of the show grappling with the likelihood ...