Are Juices From Trifoliate Oranges on Elementary's One Way to Get Off?

Summary: Trifoliate oranges adapt to New York City winters and perhaps add orange juices to rented room floors on Elementary's One Way to Get Off Nov. 15, 2012.

China-native trifoliate orange (Citrus trifoliata, Poncirus trifoliata) fruits and foliage; Jardin alpin du Jardin des Plantes, Paris, France; Oct. 9, 2010: Jebulon, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Trifoliate oranges add acidic, aromatic, Asian aspects as condiment, marmalade and zest and, perhaps on Elementary procedural drama television series episode One Way to Get Off Nov. 15, 2012, as orange juices.

Director Seith Mann and writer Christopher Silber brandish orange juice on Mayweather Hotel room floors to bruit one career criminal's innocence in Season One's seventh episode. A clandestine cohort or a copycat criminal carries out a home invasion that contains all the characteristics central to home invasions by Wade Crewes (Keith Szarabajka). A home invader around midnight drags Jay and Amy Myrose from their bedroom and departs with the wealthy couple's wall-safe valuables and one Jimmy Choo shoe.

Myrose executions with hands and heads respectively encased within pile hitch-knotted bindings and belt-strapped pillows evokes Crewes' three home invasions in three months 13 years earlier.

The blue-eyed, formerly functionally illiterate Crewes fills his conversations with high-faluting literary references fomented through friendship with Sean Figeruoa (Juan Castano), blue-eyed Mexican-American and prison volunteer.

Right-eye blindness gets Victor Nardin (Stivi Paskoski) off as suspected killer of Garret Ames, Jay and Amy Myrose, and Michael (Greg Wattkis) and Elizabeth (Cheryl Lewis). One-sided depth perception heads Nardin's breakfast orange juice onto the floor, not into the glass, and the Chechen migrant's bullets away from, not into, wealthy victims. Perhaps his orange juice is from trifoliate oranges, identified scientifically by Carl Linnaeus (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778) and Constantine Rafinesque-Schmaltz (Oct. 22, 1783-Sept. 18, 1840).

Trifoliate oranges juggle downy, peach-like exteriors and pulpy, sour interiors with 20 to 50 0.35- to 047-inch (0.9- to 1.2-centimeter) seeds within fine-ridged or smooth coats.

April- through June-blooming flowers kindle July- through October- fruiting 1.18- to 1.77-inch (3- to 4.5-centimeter) by 1.38- to 2.36-inch (3.5- to 6-centimeter) trifoliate oranges amid alternate-positioned foliage.

Trifoliate oranges lodge rusty-tipped 1.2- to 2-inch (3- to 5-centimeter) spines and four- to seven-petaled, 1.2- to 3.15-inch (3- to 8-centimeter) white flowers with pink stamens. Narrow-winged stalks maintain one- to five-leaf clusters of three to five fine-notched, 0.79- to 1.97-inch (2- to 5-centimeter) by 0.39- to 1.18-inch (1- to 3-centimeter) leaflets. Rutaceae (from Latin ruta, "rue" and -āceae, "-like") members named Citrus trifoliata or Poncirus trifoliata (from French poncire, "citron" and Latin trifoliāta, "three-leafed") net green-striped bark.

Trifoliate oranges obtain 8- to 20-foot (2.44- to 6.09-meter) heights; 5- to 16-foot (1.52- to 4.88-meter) spreads; low-branching, rounded habits; and shallow roots popular as rootstock.

The Atlantic and Gulf coastal United States from Pennsylvania through Texas westward and northward into Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Tennessee possess introduced populations of trifoliate oranges.

Anhui, Gansu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi and Zhejiang provinces; Chongqing municipality; and Guangxi autonomous region queue up China's trifoliate oranges. The woody natives of coastal through inland China require 44.49-inch (1,130-millimeter) annual average rainfall and moist, sunny, well-drained soils through 7,874.02-foot (2,400-meter) altitudes above sea level. They survive temperatures down to minus 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 20 degrees Celsius) in United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) cold hardiness zones 6a and 6b.

Trifoliate oranges perhaps tempt Nardin more as thorny thickets that take over terrains and terrify intruders and tossable fruits for depth-perception training than as sour juices.

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) disqualifies a suspect based upon spilled orange juice and other faulty depth perception clues while past pain resurfaces with the return of letters from deceased lover Irene Adler in CBS Elementary's One Way to Get Off (season 1 episode 7): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook Nov. 26, 2012

Acknowledgment

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

Image credits:

China-native trifoliate orange (Citrus trifoliata, Poncirus trifoliata) fruits and foliage; Jardin alpin du Jardin des Plantes, Paris, France; Oct. 9, 2010: Jebulon, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poncirus_trifoliata_1_JdP.jpg

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) disqualifies a suspect based upon spilled orange juice and other  faulty depth perception clues while past pain resurfaces with the return of letters from deceased lover Irene Adler in CBS Elementary's One Way to Get Off (season 1 episode 7): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook Nov. 26, 2012, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/posts/188875301237216

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