Gutta-Percha Trees and Hawaii Five-0 2010 Ninth Season Premiere Cocoon

Summary: Does gutta-percha, from gutta-percha trees, seal McGarrett's fate to five agents in Cocoon, Hawaii Five-0 2010 ninth season premiere, Sept. 28, 2018?

gutta-percha (Palaquium gutta), illustrated in F.E. Köhler and M. Vogtherr, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen (1898), vol. III, Plate 1, opposite page 80: Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library

Gutta-percha acts as an accessory in the assassinations of five agents and attempts against a commander in the Hawaii Five-0 2010 action police procedural series' ninth season premiere episode Sept. 28, 2018.

Director Bryan Spicer borrows gutta-percha (from the Malay getah, "latex" and perca, "cloth-like strips") in Cocoon (Ka 'Owili 'Oka'i) from Paul Wendkos's same-named 1968-1980 series' pilot. Gutta-percha connects "Anderson in Jakarta, Stanton in Bangkok, Burke in Korea, Brubaker in Hong Kong. Now Hennessey in Hawaii. Five top agents dead in three months." It dapples the ear and nose hairs and the eyelashes of five autopsied corpses even though autopsies typically detect gutta-percha in filled-up cavities and root canals.

Hawaii Five-0 task force commander Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) explains guttah-percha's employment as evidence of five enforced experiences, for extracting sensitive information, in sensory deprivation tanks.

Palaquium gutta and fellow Palaquium (from the Tagalog palakihin, "to grow, to increase in size") genus members furnish gutta-percha through 5,249.34-foot (1,600-meter) altitudes above sea level.

Gutta-percha trees grow in coastal Indonesian and Malaysian heath, limestone, lowland, mixed-species dipterocarp (from the Greek δίς, dís, "twice"; πτερόν, pterón, "wing"; καρπός, karpós, "fruit") forests. Their fruits each hold one to four brown, glossy, hard seeds, known as peanut nuts, that have individual fatty, tallow contents of 58 to 63 percent. Life cycles of gutta perchas, identified by Sir William Jackson Hooker (July 6, 1785-Aug. 12, 1865) in 1847, involve deep-soil germinating two- to eight-week viable seeds.

The 100-plus-year life cycles of strong-taprooted gutta-percha trees juggle 9.84-inch- (25-centimeter-) high seedlings, 26.25-foot- (8-meter-) tall seven-year-olds, 55.77-foot- (17-meter-) tall 23-year-olds and 164.04-foot- (50-meter-) tall 50-year-olds.

Gutta-percha trees know 4.72-inch (12-centimeter) mean annual increments in trunk diameters and 3.28-foot (1-meter) diameter mature trunks in montane, swampy soil pHs of 6 to 7.

Sapotaceae (from the Nahuatl tzapotl, "edible, soft fruit") family membership loads toxic saponins into nutrititiously oily seeds within 0.98- to 2.76-inch (2.5- to 7-centimeter) diameter fruits. Brown- to red-barked, defoliated, mossy branches maintain berry-like, brown, egg-shaped, elliptical or rounded fruits after green-white-yellow, short-stalked, star-shaped clusters with male pollen-making and female pollen-receiving parts. Gutta-perchas, named by William Burck (Feb. 4, 1848-Sept. 25, 1910) in 1885, net 12 six-petaled, six-sepaled, 12-stamened flowers in brown, cup-like, fine-haired, two- to three-rowed calyxes.

Gutta-percha tree branches organize successive three to four groups, each of a dozen flowers with arrow-shaped anthers; cone-shaped, hairy ovaries; and four- to seven-lobed white corollas.

Alternate- or spiral-stalked, elliptical or oblong-oval, entire, leathery, simple, 3.15- to 9.84-inch- (8 to 25-centimeter-) long leaves possess evergreen-glossed upper-sides, orange-brown mid-veins and red-haired yellow undersides.

Gutta-perchas queue up for mean annual 78.74- to 118.11-inch (2,000- to 3,000-millimeter) rainfall and temperatures between 75.2 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (24 and 30 degrees Celsius). They render borer-resistant, fungi-sensitive, termite-intolerant pink- to red-brown cabinets, canes, doors, flooring, furniture, joinery, knife handles, moulding, mourning beads, panels, pistol hand-grips, planks and rifle shoulder-pads. Eucalyptus-scented, milky pink-gray sap and seeds unsown in moist, nutrient-rich, sunny, well-drained soils respectively supply dentistry products, golf-balls and splints and candles, cooking-fat, soaps and waxes.

O'Loughlin undoubtedly translates gutta-percha as Palaquium gutta in McGarrett's Hawaiian English in the 194th series' episode overall but as Excoecaria parvifolia in his native Australian English.

Jack Lord (below) as Steve McGarrett in original Hawaii Five-0 pilot episode, Cocoon (Sept. 26, 1968); Alex O'Loughlin (above) as McGarrett in series remake's ninth season reboot, Ka 'Owili 'Oka'i (Sept. 28, 2018), by writers Leonard Freeman (pilot credit), Alex Kurtzman, Peter M. Lenkov and Roberto Orci: Hawaii Five-0 @HawaiiFive0CBS, via Facebook Sep. 29, 2018

Acknowledgment

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

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gutta percha (Palaquium gutta), illustrated in F.E. Köhler and M. Vogtherr, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen (1898), vol. III, Plate 1, opposite page 80: Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/302432

Jack Lord (below) as Steve McGarrett in original Hawaii Five-0 episode, Cocoon (Sept. 26, 1968); Alex O'Loughlin (above) as McGarrett in series remake's ninth season reboot, Ka 'Owili 'Oka'i (Sept. 28, 2018), by writers Leonard Freeman (pilot credit), Alex Kurtzman, Peter M. Lenkov and Roberto Orci: Hawaii Five-0 @HawaiiFive0CBS, via Facebook Sep. 29, 2018, @ https://www.facebook.com/HawaiiFive0CBS/photos/a.135257959841022/2130385533661578/

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