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.

The poisonous produce is called othalanga, and it’s an apple-like fruit that grows on the pong-pong tree, which is native to Southeast Asia, according to the National Parks website.

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.

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 poisonous fruit tree featured in The White Lotus season 3 is, in fact, real and is formally known as the Cerbera Odollam, native to Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.