Hawaiian Blueberry Botanical Illustrations for Hawaii Five-0 Pancakes

Summary: Hawaiian cranberry and Hawaiian blueberry botanical illustrations and images are next-best to native fruit pancakes on Hawaii Five-0 2010 Oct. 11, 2010.

Hawaiian blueberries (Vaccinium reticulatum); Polipoli Spring State Recreation Area, eastern Maui; Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005, 14:55:34: Forest and Kim Starr (Starr Environmental), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr

Hawaiian cranberry and Hawaiian blueberry botanical illustrations and images argue for native fruits in blueberry pancakes in the Hawaii Five-0 2010 active police procedural television series episode Lanakila: Victory Oct. 11, 2010.

Director Alex Zakrzewski and writers Alex Kurtzman, Peter M. Lenkov and Roberto Orci brandish mental and physical cleverness to outwit fugitives in Season One's fourth episode. The Hawaii Five-0 2010 task force, continued from the 1968-1980 series by Leonard Freeman (Oct. 31, 1920-Jan. 20, 1974), consider Halawa Correctional Facility casualties in Honolulu. Detective Danny Williams (Scott Caan) dumbfounds waitress Sofia Archuleta (Natalie Garcia Fryman) with the order, "First, Walton Dawkins, but then I would love some blueberry pancakes."

Danny expects sit-down pancakes from an employed Sofia who exposes Dawkins's (Balthazar Getty) endgame or to-go if she ends up jailed because a triple murderer escapes.

The Cyanococcus (from the Greek κυάνεος, kuáneos, "blue-green" and κόκκος, kókkos, "seed") section of the Vaccinium bilberry, blueberry, cranberry, huckleberry, lingonberry genus furnishes North America's blueberries.

Myrtillus (from Greek μύρτος, múrtos, "myrtle") section bilberries, blueberries and huckleberries get Hawaii-grown 'ōhelo (Vaccinium dentatum), 'ōhelo 'ai (Vaccinium reticulatum) and 'ōhelo kau la'au (Vaccinium calycinum). Each fleshy, 0.2- to 0.50-inch (6.35- to 12.7-millimeter) diameter 'ōhelo 'ai (edible pink berry) has 50 to 200 0.019- to 0.039-inch- (0.5- to 1.0-millimeter-) long seeds. Paler, lower ranges and large-diameter, red- to tan-brown elliptical, round or triangular shapes respectively indicate non-viability and, for cool-night, sunlit, warm-day germination within 12 months, viability.

Hawaiian cranberry and Hawaiian blueberry botanical illustrations and images juggle black, blue-purple, orange-yellow, pink, red, red-purple, yellow, yellow-green 3.15- to 5.51-inch (8- to 14-centimeter) diameter berries.

'Ōhelo 'ai, known scientifically as Vaccinium reticulatum (from Greek ὑάκινθος, huákinthos, "purple" or Latin vaccīnus, "regarding cows" and rēticulātum, "net-like"), keep June through September fruiting schedules.

Seed-dispersing Hawaiian geese (Branta sandvicensis) live off the Ericaceae (from the Greek ἐρείκη, ereíkē, "heath" and Latin -āceae, "resembling") family member's sweet ripe, tart young berries. Bell-shaped, clustered, drooping, pink, red or yellow, self-fertile, waxy 0.32- to 0.47-inch- (8- to 12-millimeter-) long flowers manage year-round blooms, most markedly from April through September. 'Ōhelo 'ai, named scientifically in 1817 by James Edward Smith (Dec. 2, 1759-March 17, 1828), net 1-inch- (2.54-centimeter-) long, straight, upward-swelling stalks; hairy styles; 10 stamens.

Hawaiian cranberry and Hawaiian blueberry botanical illustrations observe four- to five-sepaled downy, oblong, ribbed calyxes; five-petaled, semi-hairy, urn-like, 0.32- to 0.47-inch- (8- to 12-millimeter-) long corollas.

Entire or toothed, hairy or smooth-surfaced, oval to wedge-shaped, red-patched, spiral-arranged, veined 0.39- to 1.18-inch- (1- to 3-centimeter-) long and wide leaves project blue-, gray-, yellow-greens.

'Ōhelo 'ai queue up 0.33- to 7-foot (0.1- to 2-meter) heights atop root-like, stem-shaped rhizomes at 2,099- to 12,139.11-foot (640- to 3,700-meter) altitudes above sea level. They require dry seasons and some cloud cover and drying winds above disturbed, exposed alpine and subalpine shrublands, ash dunes, lava flows and volcanic cinder beds. They survive on zero to 50- or 100-inch (1,270- or 2,540-millimeter) annual rainfall and temperatures between 68 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (20 and 30 degrees Celsius).

Hawaiian cranberry and Hawaiian blueberry botanical illustrations and images as art and 'ōhelo 'ai as food and ornamental plants turn Danny into a native blueberry-loving local.

Kaka'ako Waterfront Park, located south of downtown Honolulu, is one of the filming locations in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0 season 1 episode 4, Lanakila (Victory); Monday, May 17, 2010, 16:15: Daniel Ramirez from Honolulu, USA, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Hawaiian blueberries (Vaccinium reticulatum); Polipoli Spring State Recreation Area, eastern Maui; Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005, 14:55:34: Forest and Kim Starr (Starr Environmental), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/starr-environmental/24817857975/; Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 4.0 International, via Starr Environmental @ http://www.starrenvironmental.com/images/image/?q=24817857975

Kaka'ako Waterfront Park, located south of downtown Honolulu, is one of the filming locations in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0 season 1 episode 4, Lanakila (Victory); Monday, May 17, 2010, 16:15: Daniel Ramirez from Honolulu, USA, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kakaako_Waterfront_Park_hilltop_20100517.jpg; Daniel Ramirez (jdnx), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/danramarch/4668358193/

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