In true White Lotus fashion ... this tree is real—and its fruit is a real concern. The poisonous produce is called othalanga, and it’s an apple-like fruit that grows on the pong-pong tree ...

Like many characters in the third season of “The White Lotus,” the pong pong tree ... Reilly), warns the Ratliff family that a poisonous fruit tree is growing in the middle of their habitation ...