Mamaki Tea, Not Coffee on Magnum's The Night Has Eyes, Aids Alertness

Summary: Mamaki tea, not coffee on Magnum's The Night Has Eyes Apr. 24, 2020, aids alertness and arises from mamaki trees appreciated by kamemeha butterflies.

flowering habit of Hawaiian māmaki nettle-family plant (Pipturus albidus, from Greek πίπτω, "to fall" and οὐρά, "tail"; and Latin οὐρά, "tail"; and Latin albidus, "white"; classified scientifically by William Hooker [July 6, 1785-Aug. 12, 1865] and George Walker-Arnott [Feb. 6, 1799-June 17, 1868], Asa Gray [Nov. 18, 1810-Jan. 30, 1888] and Horace Mann [May 4, 1796-Aug. 2, 1859]); Ko'olau Gap, Haleakalā National Park, East, Maui, Hawaii; Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 08:53: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY SA 3.0 United States, via Wikimedia Commons

Mamaki tea, not coffee on Magnum's The Night Has Eyes crime action drama television series episode Apr. 24, 2020, aids alertness, alleviates anguish and arises from mamaki trees appreciated by kamemeha butterflies.

Director David Straiton and writer Ashley Charbonnet build Season Two's 17th episode, series' 37th overall, around a baffling break-in for a silver urn with 10-year-old ashes. Honolulu Police Department officers, Detective Gordon Katsumoto (Tim Kang) and private investigators Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks) and Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez) come to the Yang residence. All but Higgins and Magnum depart upon discovering that Lynn Yang's (Kheng Hua Tan) husband Richard disappeared the previous night as abducted ashes, not abducted person.

Perhaps fresh, hot coffee in Lynn's glass serving set energizes Magnum into equating his parking-ticket experience near a branch-covered "No Parking" sign with the yesternight thief.

Traditional Hawaiians favoring ancient Hawaiian foods furnish family and friends endemic (among one's people, from Greek ἐν, "in" and δῆμος, "people") mamaki tea, not non-native coffee.

Brown, elliptical, flattened, shiny, 0.06-inch- (1.5-millimeter-) long seeds germinating within two to three weeks or 4- to 6-inch- (10.16- to 15.24-centimeter-) long cuttings generate mamaki trees. Mamaki trees, from the second year in five-plus-year life cycles, annually have hundreds of brown-white, brown-yellow, gray, oval seeds from hundreds of fleshy, raspberry-like, white fruits. The ball-like, dry, 0.51 (13-millimeter) diameter fruits with their dry, enlarged, hardened, seed-bearing, sepal-bearing, whorled calyxes (from κάλυξ, "husk") incline along gray- to red-brown, stout branches.

Bland-tasting to semi-sweet fruits join evergreen mamaki tea leaves on sap-moistened branches with raised-dotted outer bark over fibrous, green-streaked, mucilaginous, near-tasteless inner bark over white sapwood.

Variable 200- to 6,100-foot (60.96- to 1,859.28-meter) altitudes and average annual rainfall, with 100-inch (2,540-millimeter) maximums, kindle gray, brown-white, brown-yellow, white-yellow fruits with coarse, sparse hairs.

Clustered flowers launch year-round seeding from year-round fruiting from year-round flowering near leaf-stem axils (junctures, from Latin axillus, armpit) and fine-haired, gray-haired, large-noded, somewhat zigzagged twigs. Female and male reproductive parts mostly manifest themselves in separate gray, hairy, rounded, 0.24- to 0.51-inch (6- to 13-millimeter) diameter clusters on the same, self-pollinating tree. Female flowers net fine-haired, four-toothed, urn-shaped calyxes; hairy, long-styled pistils; and ovaries whereas cup-shaped, fine-haired, four-lobed, four-stamened calyxes nestle into not even 0.12-inch- (3-millimeter-) long males.

Mamaki trees offer no stalks, and often no petal-organizing corollas (from Latin corōlla, "wreathlet"), for their alternate-occurring flowers near alternate-occurring leaves so obliging for mamaki tea.

Hairy, slender, 1- to 3-inch- (2.54- to 7.62-centimeter-) tall stalks present 2- to 12-inch- (5.08- to 30.48-centimeter-) long, 1.25- to 6-inch- (3.18- to 15.24-centimeter-) wide leaves.

Fine-haired, gray-white undersides; green, semi-rough upper-sides; three base-to-tip, red, semi-sunken veins; and wavy-toothed edges qualify as quintessential blunt to round-based, long-tipped, thin to semi-thickened mamaki leaves. Leaves reaping boron, calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus and sodium rouse ants, aphids, grasshoppers, larval kamehameha butterflies, mealybugs, rose beetles, spider mites, spittlebugs and thrips. Semi-dry, wet forests and valleys everywhere Hawaiian but Kahoolawe and Niihau shelter 10- to 15-foot- (3.05- to 4.57-meter-) high, spaced, spreading trees with 1-foot (0.31-meter) diameters..

Traditional Hawaiians treasure accent, containerized, hedge, landscape-screening, shade-garden, understory mamaki trees for coffee-like dried-leaf mamaki tea and uncoffee-like fresh fruits, fresh-leaf vegetables and thwacked-bark, treated-bark textiles.

Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez) briefly revisits a doctor masquerade in Magnum P.I's The Night Has Eyes (season 2 episode 17); Magnum's first doctor masquerade occurred in Black Is the Widow (season 1 episode 17): Magnum P.I. @MagnumPICBS, via Facebook April 24, 2020

Acknowledgment

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

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flowering habit of Hawaiian māmaki nettle-family plant (Pipturus albidus, from Greek πίπτω, "to fall" and οὐρά, "tail"; and Latin οὐρά, "tail"; and Latin albidus, "white"; classified scientifically by William Hooker [July 6, 1785-Aug. 12, 1865] and George Walker-Arnott [Feb. 6, 1799-June 17, 1868], Asa Gray [Nov. 18, 1810-Jan. 30, 1888] and Horace Mann [May 4, 1796-Aug. 2, 1859]); Ko'olau Gap, Haleakalā National Park, East, Maui, Hawaii; Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 08:53: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY SA 3.0 United States, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Starr-110713-7193-Pipturus_albidus-flowering_habit-Koolau_Gap-Maui_(24472394973).jpg; Forest and Kim Starr (Starr Environmental), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/starr-environmental/24472394973/; Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 4.0 International, via Starr Environmental @ http://www.starrenvironmental.com/images/image/?q=24472394973

Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez) briefly revisits a doctor masquerade in Magnum P.I's The Night Has Eyes (season 2 episode 17); Magnum's first doctor masquerade occurred in Black Is the Widow (season 1 episode 17): Magnum P.I. @MagnumPICBS, via Facebook April 24, 2020, @ https://www.facebook.com/MagnumPICBS/photos/a.188324141812283/584730925504934/

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