Beach Naupaka Are Security Hedges for Magnum's Mondays Are For Murder

Summary: Hawaiian beach naupaka living fences and security hedges perhaps abort criminal trespass anywhere but Magnum's Mondays Are For Murder Jan. 10, 2020.

beach-facing view of Hawaiian beach naupaka (Scaevola sericea); Wailea Coastal Trail, southwestern shore, South Maui, Hawai'i; Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 11:59:50: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 4.0 International, via Starr Environmental

Hawaiian beach naupaka living fences and security hedges avert elsewhere such efficiency and security-breaching crimes as those on Magnum PI action drama television series episode Mondays Are For Murder Jan. 10, 2020.

Second-season 13th-episode director Alexandra LaRoche and writers Alfredo Barrios Jr., Eric Guggenheim and Peter Lenkov bring in Theodore Calvin (Stephen Hill) and Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez). Mean annual 19.68 to 98.42-inch (500 to 2,500-millimeter) rainfall cultivates Hawaiian beach naupaka living fences and security hedges against the series' 33rd episode overall's corporate casualty. Evergreen perennial life cycle-friendly temperatures between 66.2 and 89.6 degrees Fahrenheit (19 and 32 degrees Celsius) develop dense hedges from air-layered, cut, seeded Hawaiian beach naupaka.

Eight-ribbed, two-partitioned Hawaiian beach naupaka drupe's (from Greek δρύππᾱ, "olive") two locules (from Latin loculus, "little space") each enclose one beige, corky, ridged, three-month germinatable, year-viable seed.

Hawaiian beach naupaka furnish berry-like, buoyant, corky, fleshy, marble-white, pithy, pulpy, sepal-lobed, 0.28 to 0.5-inch (7 to 12.7-millimeter-) diameter fruits as last-resort foray and famine food.

Hawaiian beach naupaka get cream-white, green-white, tan 0.75-inch (1.91-centimeter) diameter flowers, sometimes purple streaked or yellow-tinged, with spoon-shaped petals, 0.79-inch (2-centimeter) corollas and 0.09-inch (2.5-millimeter) calyxes. The Goodenaceae (from Samuel Goodenough, May 10, 1743-Aug. 12, 1827, and Latin -āceae, "resembling") family member herds flowers in small clusters, beneath leaves, on main stems. Hawaiian beach naupaka, identified by Joseph Gaertner (March 12, 1732-July 14, 1791) and William Roxburgh (June 19, 2751-Feb. 18, 1815), include fan-shaped, five-petaled, one-sided, year-round blooms.

Commoner and royal intermarriages jeopardized Hawaiian ruling lineages so Princess Naupaka of the mountains judged one-half of her favorite flower hers and the other her lover's.

The fisherman Kaui, whose commoner status kept him from marrying Princess Naupaka, kept his half of her favorite flower as naupaka kahakai ("Naupaka at the seashore").

Hawaiian beach naupaka, labeled locally aupaka, huahekili ("hailstones"), naupaka kai, log 3.93 to 8.66-inch (10 to 22-centimeter-) long, 8.66 to 1.58-inch (4 to 8-centimeter-) wide leaves. Alternate-positioned, fleshy, green to green-yellow, smooth-surfaced, sometimes fuzzy, somewhat succulent, spirally arranged, thick, waxy leaves manifest broad, rounded tips; rolled-under edges; and white-tufted leaf-twig axil meetings. The scientifically named Scaevola sericea (from Gaius Mucius Cordus nicknamed Scaevola, "left-handed" and sēriceus, "silky [short-haired axils]") net 0.19 to 0.39-inch (5 to 10-millimeter) diameter twigs.

Mature Hawaiian beach naupaka obtain 3 to 10-foot (0.91 to 3.05-meter) heights, 6 to 15-foot (1.83 to 4.57-meter) canopy widths and tree height-width ratios of 2:1.

Hawaiian beach naupaka possess branched, shallow, spreading roots that prefer well-drained soils and 2 to 5-foot (0.61 to 1.52-meter) spaces between the trunks that they prop.

Hawaiian beach naupaka queues up on Hawai'i, Kaho'olawe, Kaua'i, Lana'i, Maui, Moloka'i, Ni'ihau and O'ahu and many if not all of the leeward Northwestern Hawaiian islands. They remain drought, heat, salt spray, saltwater, sun and wind-tolerant in cinder, clayey, coral, organic-rich and sandy soils up through 150-foot (45.72-meter) altitudes above sea level. They serve companionably, securely with false sandalwood (naio, Myoporum sandwicense); Oahu riverhemp ('ohai, Sesbania tomentosa); Pacific rosewood (milo, Thespesia populnea); and sea trumpet (kou, Cordia subcordata).

Hawaiian beach naupaka kahakai and Hawaiian mountain naupaka kuahiwi tackle traditional private and public tasks as respectively mukai ("oceanward") and mauka ("mountainward") boundary and security hedges.

(left to right) Uncharacteristically besuited Theodore "TC" Calvin (Stephen Hill) and Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Jay Hernandez) "scrub up well," as Magnum's partner Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks) would say, in CBS-TV's Magnum P.I. season 2 episode 13, Mondays Are For Murder: Magnum P.I. @MagnumPICBS, via Facebook Jan. 10, 2020

Acknowledgment

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

Image credits:

beach-facing view of Hawaiian beach naupaka (Scaevola sericea); Wailea Coastal Trail, southwestern shore, South Maui, Hawai'i; Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 11:59:50: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 4.0 International, via Starr Environmental @ http://www.starrenvironmental.com/images/image/?q=43985327994; Forest and Kim Starr (Starr Environmental), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/starr-environmental/43985327994/

(left to right) Uncharacteristically besuited Theodore "TC" Calvin (Stephen Hill) and Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Jay Hernandez) "scrub up well," as Magnum's partner Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks) would say, in CBS-TV's Magnum P.I. season 2 episode 13, Mondays Are For Murder: Magnum P.I. @MagnumPICBS, via Facebook Jan. 10, 2020, @ https://www.facebook.com/MagnumPICBS/posts/488225161822178

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