If you were one of the millions of people who tuned in to the third season of HBO’s “The White Lotus” then you already know ...

Image Credit: Vengolis, CC BY-SA 4.0/Wiki Commons. First off, Chekhov's fruit — also known as Cerbera odollam — isn’t just a dramatic invention for TV. It’s a real, highly toxic plant that ...

Native to Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands and parts of Australia, Cerbera odollam – also known as the pong pong tree – belongs to the dogbane family, which also includes other poisonous ...

Known as the “suicide tree” in Southeast Asia and Australia where it grows, the pong pong tree (Cerbera odollam) has been linked to thousands of deaths. In fact, it may be even more toxic than ...

The pong pong tree (Cerbera odollam) is a toxic plant belonging to the dogbane family, which are flowering plants famous for producing poisons. It grows in Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands ...

The pong-pong tree, also known as Cerbera odollam, produces a plant, which has seeds that are poisonous when ingested. The seeds — which are about the size of a peach pit — contain the highly ...

A 2018 study in the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine notes that the plant, also known as Cerbera odollam, grows primarily in wet areas in South India, Madagascar, and Southeast Asia.

But what’s the real story behind the pong-pong? Pong-pong trees, or Cerbera odollam, are indigenous to South and Southeast Asia, tropical Pacific islands and parts of Australia, according to the ...

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. The seeds of this ...

The museum keeps the Cerbera odollam seeds stored in a locked cabinet full of poisonous plants as part of their botany collections. The Field Museums aid it will be showcasing these seeds at their ...

The plant, filled with toxic seeds, comes from cerbera odollam, a tree that’s commonly known as the suicide tree or pong-pong. The consequences of eating the fruit are severe. According to a ...