Liberian Coffee Perhaps Averts Addiction on Elementary's The Long Fuse

Summary: Smoky, strong Liberian coffee perhaps attracts a banker who acts as sober sponsor through Addicts Anonymous on Elementary's The Long Fuse Nov. 29, 2012.

Plate of Liberian coffee (Coffea liberica) from British Museum specimen collected January 1856 at Sierra Leone by British army surgeon and botanist William Freeman Daniell (Nov. 16, 1817-June 26, 1865); a=cluster of three calyces, b=vertical section of ovary and epigynous disk, c=pyrene, face view, d=pyrene, lateral view, e=seed, dorsal view; illustration by David Blair, Fellow of the Linnean Society (FLS), printed by Mintern Brothers; W.P. Hiern, On the African Species (1876), Plate XXIV, opposite page 176: Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library

Liberian coffee perhaps appears among hot drinks that a banker who acts as an Addicts Anonymous sober sponsor appreciates on Elementary procedural drama television series episode The Long Fuse Nov. 29, 2012.

Director Andrew Bernstein and writer Jeffrey Paul King bring the banker Adrian (Rufus Collins) and Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) together in Season One's eighth episode. A sober sponsor comes after Joan Watson's (Lucy Liu) live-in sober companionship during recovering addict Sherlock's first six weeks away from Hemdale addiction treatment center concludes. Joan designates the London School of Economics four-year attendee and Securities and Exchange Commission officer, due to Sherlock's Baker Street domicile and despite Sherlock's disliking bankers.

Adrian exhibits no empathy, experience or expertise in evading drug relapses when Sherlock envisions a scenario of ending minor neuroleptic poisoning with the controlled substance diphenhydramine.

Perhaps Adrian fills coffee cups with Liberian coffee or perhaps not since he fails Sherlock's news quiz about southern Africa's Republic of Zambia forbidding the antihistamine.

Fawn-green, hard-coated, 0.28- to 0.59-inch (0.7- to 1.5-centimeter) by 0.16- to 0.39-inch (0.4- to 1-centimeter) seeds generate Liberian coffee trees whose beans perhaps give Adrian coffee. Flat to weak-angled branches have red 0.47- to 1.18-inch (1.2- to 3-centimeter) by 0.35- to 0.63-inch (0.9- to 1.6-centimeter) fruits with paired seeds August through November. Five-plus-year-old Liberian coffee trees, identified by William Bull (1828-June 1, 1902) and William Hiern (Jan. 19, 1839-Nov. 28, 1925), include white flowers every January through May.

Leaf-axil junctures with branches juggle one to six bundles of two to 10 1.18- to 1.58-inch (3- to 4-centimeter) diameter flowers on 0.039-inch- (1-millimeter-) long stalks.

Calyx tubes, 0.16-inch- (4-millimeter-) wide corolla tubes, ovaries and 7 to 8 petals keep respectively minimum 0.07-inch (1.75-millimeter), 0.16-inch (4-millimeter), 0.06-inch (1.5-millimeter) and 0.24-inch (6-millimeter) lengths.

Glossy 5.52- to 14.96-inch (14- to 38-centimeter) by 2.17- to 7.93-inch (5.5- to 20.15-centimeter) leaves on 0.32- to 0.98-inch- (0.8- to 2.5-centimeter-) long stalks look leathery. They manifest six to 13 paired secondary veins, 0.26- to 0.39-inch- (4- to 10-millimeter-) long tips and 0.08- to 0.18-inch- (2- to 4.5-millimeter-) long basal stipules. Twenty-five- to 30-year life cycles net gallery-forest, lowland, rainforest, scrubland, somewhat mountainous Liberian coffee trees, named scientifically Coffea liberica, 10- to 164.04-foot (3.05- to 50-meter) heights.

Naturalized Liberian coffee trees occur in Central America and the West Indies; in French Polynesia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines; on Andaman and Nicobar; and on Seychelles.

Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela versus Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo possess respectively naturalized versus native Liberian coffee trees.

Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Uganda queue up native populations of Liberian coffee trees. They require moist, partially to totally shaded, well-drained soil pHs between 4.3 and 6.2, at humid, 24.38- to 640.08-foot (80- to 2,100-meter) altitudes above sea level. They survive 43.31- to 137.79-inch (1,100- to 3,500-millimeter) annual mean rainfall and daytime temperature ranges between 64.4 and 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit (18 and 36 degrees Celsius).

Larger beans from typically larger Liberian trees transmit to African, Asian, Australian, Eurasian, Latin American and perhaps Adrian's coffees dark chocolate, espresso, smoky tastes and textures.

Captain Gregson (Aidan Quinn), Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller), Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) and New York Police Department Bomb Squad tech (Steve Cirbus) meet over evidence that includes a battery noted as four years old by Holmes in CBS Elementary's The Long Fuse (season 1 episode 8): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook Nov. 26, 2012

Acknowledgment

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Plate of Liberian coffee (Coffea liberica) from British Museum specimen collected January 1856 at Sierra Leone by British army surgeon and botanist William Freeman Daniell (Nov. 16, 1817-June 26, 1865); a=cluster of three calyces, b=vertical section of ovary and epigynous disk, c=pyrene, face view, d=pyrene, lateral view, e=seed, dorsal view; illustration by David Blair, Fellow of the Linnean Society (FLS), printed by Mintern Brothers; W.P. Hiern, On the African Species (1876), Plate XXIV, opposite page 176: Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/761568

Captain Gregson (Aidan Quinn), Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller), Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) and New York Police Department Bomb Squad tech (Steve Cirbus) meet over evidence that includes a battery noted as four years old by Holmes in CBS Elementary's The Long Fuse (season 1 episode 8): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook Nov. 26, 2012, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/posts/188875301237216

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