Kauila Trees Assure That on Five-0 Ua 'Eha Ka 'Ili I Ka Maka O Ka Ihe

Summary: Kauila trees afford the hardest wood so that the skin has been hurt by the tip of the spear on Five-0's Ua 'Eha Ka 'Ili I Ka Maka O Ka Ihe Sept. 27, 2019.

Alphitonia ponderosa, known in Hawaii as kauila; Maui; Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003, 16:59:36; image 031111-0048: Forest and Kim Starr, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Kauila trees assure that, apart Hawaii Five-0 episode Ua 'Eh Ka 'Ili I Ka Maka O Ka Ihe Sept. 27, 2019, the skin has been hurt by the point of the spear.

Director Duane Clark and writers Peter Lenkov, Matt Wheeler and David Wolkove build the 10th season's first episode around violence's emotionally, mentally, physically, systemically bruising brutality. The series' 219th episode overall considers Jerry Ortega (Jorge Garcia) and Yakuza leaders as respectively unintended and intended targets of respectively personally motivated and recruited assassins. Jerry does not die from the bullets directed by Omar Hassan's (Ben Youcef) widow Azra (Yasmin Dar) against Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin), Hawaii Five-0 Lieutenant Commander.

Traditional Hawaiian culture employs no metal weaponry even though one of the seven woods that ended up in battle, game-throwing and hunting spears exhibited near-metal hardness.

Traditional Hawaiian spears feature alahe'e (Psydrax odorata), kauila (Alphitonia ponderosa, Colubrina oppositifolia), mamane (Sophora chrysophylla), maua (Xylosma hawaiiense), olopua (Nestegis sandwicensis) or uhiuhi (Mezoneuron kauaiense) wood.

Traditional Hawaiian culture groups sometimes Alphitonia ponderosa (from Greek αλφιτον, "barley meal" for dry, mealy-tasting fruit, and Latin ponderōsa, "weighty"), sometimes Colubrina oppositifolia, as kauila trees. The first-mentioned Rhamnaceae (from Greek ῥάμνος, "prickly bush/shrub" and Latin -āceae, "resembling") buckthorn family member has two to three seeds within every hard, ripened fruit capsule. Four- to 8-week germination implementations of seeds viable for five to 10 years initiate 5-plus-year life cycles that involve 6-inch- (15-24-centimeter-) tall seedlings within six months.

Just black twig borers (Xylosandrus compactus) jeopardize kauila trees until Alphitonia ponderosa journeys through flowering, fruiting, pest-hardy 2- to (0.61- to 0.91-meter-) tall juvenile stages onward.

Alphitonia ponderosa kauila trees, known scientifically to William Hillebrand (Nov. 13, 1821-July 13, 1886), keep black-gray 0.59-inch (15-millimeter) diameter fruit capsules May through September.

Alphitonia ponderosa kauila trees lodge oblong, red-covered, shiny black seeds within hardened, stone-fruited shells within 0.59-inch (15-millimeter) diameter drupes (from Greek δρύππᾱ, "olive") at leafy bases. Those leafy bases maintain 0.24-inch (6-millimeter) diameter cymes (from Greek κῦμα, "swollen [plant sprout]"), each with five 0.059-inch- (1.5-millimeter-) long sepals atop 0.029-inch- (0.75-millimeter-) long petals. Kauila trees nestle black-gray fruits and green-white flowers into basal niches of 1.97- to 5.91-inch- (5- to 15-centimeter-) long leaves located alternately along Alphitonia ponderosa stems.

Kauila trees offer dull, white-green undersides with rust-colored veins and shiny uppersides atop 0.51- to 0.98-inch- (13- to 25-millimeter-) tall petioles (stalks, from Latin petiolus, "footlet").

Mature 49.21- to 78.74- foot- (15- to 24-meter-) tall, 7.87- to 23.62-inch (20- to 60-centimeter) diameter Alphitonia ponderosa kauila trees possess black-fruited, green-leafed, green-stalked, green-white-flowered canopies.

Dry coastal and mixed mesic forests qualify as Hawaii-exclusive homelands for Alphitonia ponderosa kauila trees with beautiful red heartwood and sapwood and black-streaked red timber products. Alphitonia ponderosa kauila trees require nutrient-rich, sunny, well-drained soils with maximum 50-inch (1,270-millimeter) annual average rainfall and lowest temperatures above 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4.44 degrees Celsius). Agroindustry, climate, invasives, predators and wildfires suggest International Union for Conservation of Nature vulnerability status at 787.4- to 4,101.05-foot (240- to 1,250-meter) altitudes above sea level.

Today's terrorist bullets, not traditional spears from the black-streaked red wood of Alphitonia ponderosa kauila trees, traumatize Jerry enough to turn him back into occasional consultantship.

H50 Task Force's Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0 season 10 episode 1, Ua 'Eha Ka 'Ili I Ka Maka O Ka Ihe (season 10, episode 1): Hawaii Five-0 @HawaiiFive0CBS, via Facebook Sep. 24, 2019

Acknowledgment

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

Image credits:

Alphitonia ponderosa, known in Hawaii as kauila; Maui; Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003, 16:59:36; image 031111-0048: Forest and Kim Starr, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alphitoniaponderosa1web.jpg;
Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 4.0 International, via Starr Environmental @ http://www.starrenvironmental.com/images/image/?q=24649172026;
Forest and Kim Starr (Starr Environmental), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/starr-environmental/24649172026/

H50 Task Force's Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0 season 10 episode 1, Ua 'Eha Ka 'Ili I Ka Maka O Ka Ihe (season 10, episode 1): Hawaii Five-0 @HawaiiFive0CBS, via Facebook Sep. 24, 2019, @ https://www.facebook.com/HawaiiFive0CBS/photos/a.135257959841022/2722053774494748/

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