Maiapilo Hawaiian Capers Are Absent From Magnum's He Came by Night

Summary: Maiapilo Hawaiian capers are absent from Magnum's He Came by Night Nov. 15, 2019, even though their moonlit whites advance agile amblings in darkness.

Puapilo (Capparis sandwichiana) produces maiapilo Hawaiian capers; illustration by Scottish-born botanist and botanical illustrator Isabella McHutcheson Sinclair (April 10, 1842-Dec. 29, 1900); Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr., Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands (1885), plate 42 (Leighton Brothers, Printers): Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr

Maiapilo Hawaiian capers, with their moonlit, night-opening white flowers, are advocates for dark-adapted, agile amblings, although not on Magnum PI action drama television series episode He Came by Night Nov. 15, 2019.

Second-season eighth-episode director Antonio Negret and writer Barbie Kligman broach bad behaviors, such as bartering drug money for a beloved's life and becoming an identity theft. The series' 28th episode overall cinches the world premiere of Mai Tai by Train alternative rock, pop rock and roots rock band from San Francisco, California. The Grammy award winner for Hey, Soul Sister in 2010 debuts music to dazzle Rick Wright's (Zachary Knighton) tiki (brandy, gin, rum, tequila, vodka, whiskey) club.

Club electricity enables employees, employers and patrons to enter and exit safely even if they exhibit nothing of the dark-adapted eyes of abductors and identity thieves.

Sexually propagated seeds fit maiapilo Hawaiian capers into all main Hawaiian islands, where asexually propagated cuttings perhaps figure in cultivated landscapes, and some northwestern Hawaiian islands.

Maiapilo Hawaiian capers grow from many black- or red-brown to gray, small seeds that guard a six-year viability and germinate within two weeks to three months. Introduced, invasive, non-native red-vented bulbuls (Pycnonotus cafer) hanker for the bright, fleshy, orange pulp that the pungent, ripening orange-yellow, seed-holding fruits of maiapilo Hawaiian capers harbor. Maiapilo Hawaiian capers, identified scientifically by Augustin Pyrame de Candolle (Feb. 4, 1778-Sept. 9, 1841), include cucumber-like, immature, 2- to 4-inch- (5.08- to 10.16-centimeter-) long fruits.

More mature fruits, unlike fragrantly immature fruiting stages of maiapilo Hawaiian capers, jar human olfactory senses with their smells so like rotten mushrooms and rotting bananas.

Maiapilo Hawaiian capers, known locally as mai'a a Maui ("Maui banana"), maiapilo ("stinking banana") and pilo, pua pilo and puapili ("stinking"), keep their flowering stages lemon-scented.

Maiapilo Hawaiian capers lodge large, lovely flowers that lead endemic, rare Blackburn's sphinx moth (Manduca blackburni) to floral nectar so that they leave with floral pollen. Every flower manifests four white petals that manage mid-morning pink-petaled wilting; 120 to 180 pollen-producing stamens (from Latin stāmen, "thread") and yellow centers sunset to sunrise. Every leaf nets blue-, gray-, olive-green 1- to 2-inch (2.54- to 5.08-centimeter) mature lengths; brittle stems; and fine-, short-haired or hairless younger or hairless older surfaces.

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich's (Nov. 13, 1718-April 30, 1792) namesaked Capparis sandwicensis (from Latin capparis, "caper" and sandwicensis, "Sandwich Islands"), occur as evergreen shrubs.

Maiapilo Hawaiian capers present 2- to 6- or even 10-foot (0.61- to 1.83- to even 3.05-meter) mature heights with 3- to 5-foot (0.91- to 1.52-meter) spacing.

Maiapilo Hawaiian capers queue up in drought-, heat-, salt-spray-tolerant cinder, coral, gravel, organic, rocky, sandy, sunny, well-drained soils, sea level through just under 350-foot (106.68-meter) altitudes. They represent coastal vegetation on 'Ālau, Popoi'a, Pu'uku; Hawai'i, Kaho'olawe, Kaua'i, Lāna'i, Maui, Moloka'i, Ni'ihau, O'ahu; and Hermes and Pearl (Holoikauaua), Laysan (Kauō) and Midway (Pihemanu). Leaf-preying cabbage (Mamestra brassicae) caterpillars and powdery mildew, stem-preying black twig borers (Xylosandrus compactus) and seedling-preying livestock suggest International Union for Conservation of Nature vulnerable status.

Moon-, rock-, xeriscape- (from Greek ξηρός, "dry") gardened maiapilo Hawaiian capers turn electricity down and La Mariana (from Italiana, "the little sea") owner-operator Rick's profits up.

Pat Monahan and Train perform the band's new song, "Mai Tai," at Orville "Rick" Wright's (Zachary Knighton) new club, La Mariana, in CBS-TV's Magnum P.I. season 2 episode 8, He Came By Night: Magnum P.I. @MagnumPICBS, via Facebook Nov. 15, 2019

Acknowledgment

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

Image credits:

Puapilo (Capparis sandwichiana) produces maiapilo Hawaiian capers; illustration by Scottish-born botanist and botanical illustrator Isabella McHutcheson Sinclair (April 10, 1842-Dec. 29, 1900); Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr., Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands (1885), plate 42 (Leighton Brothers, Printers): Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/32802274368/; U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library, The contributing institution believes that this item is not in copyright. Copyright Status: Not provided. Contact Holding Institution to verify copyright status, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53758125; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indigenous_Flowers_of_the_Hawaiian_Islands,_Plate_42.jpg

Pat Monahan and Train perform the band's new song, "Mai Tai," at Orville "Rick" Wright's (Zachary Knighton) new club, La Mariana, in CBS-TV's Magnum P.I. season 2 episode 8, He Came By Night: Magnum P.I. @MagnumPICBS, via Facebook Nov. 15, 2019

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