Ohelo Ai Hawaiian Blueberries Are Iconic for Magnum's Double Jeopardy

Summary: Ohelo ai Hawaiian blueberries are iconic for Magnum's Double Jeopardy as the ancient story and the Dec. 4, 2020, episode are about absent brothers.

The fruits of ohelo ai, Hawaii's endemic blueberry (Vaccinium reticulatum), can display great color ranges, including black, blue, orange, purple, red and yellow; Kalahaku Overlook, Haleakala National Park, East Maui; Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2001, 14:56:19: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Ohelo ai Hawaiian blueberries are iconic for Magnum's Double Jeopardy as the ancient story about the fruit and the Dec. 4, 2020, crime action drama television series episode are about absent brothers.

Director Bryan Spicer and writers Eric Guggenheim and Peter Lenkov bring private investigators Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks) and Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez) a missing brother case. Ancient Hawaiian culture considered, and its current continuation as traditional Hawaiian culture copies in considering, collecting berries a commemoration of a young couple and their child. The beautiful young bride Hina despaired of marital bliss with her elderly, ill-tempered husband, Chief Olopana, whose much younger brother, Kahikiula, displayed handsomeness, intelligence and manners.

His absent, exquisite wife excusing herself for berry expeditions with his absent, exquisite brother and the enamored couple engendering an equally exquisite son, Kamapua'a, embittered Olopana.

Vaughan MacCaughey, Professor at The College of Hawaii, fit Hawaiian blueberries into The Food Plants of the Ancient Hawaiians for The Scientific Monthly Jan. 1, 1917.

Ancient Hawaiian culture gives biogeographical origins of Hawaiian blueberries to the berry bush, grown, on a lava field, from the dead body of Kamapua'a's sister-in-law Kaohelo. Hawaiian blueberries, hailed locally as cranberries, huckleberries, lingonberries and ohelo ai (from Hawaiian 'ōhelo and 'ai, "edible"), honor volcano goddess Pele, mother of Kamapua'a's daughter Ka'owakaikalani. The Ericaceae (from Latin erīcē, "heather" and -āceae, "resembling") family member inhabits ash dunes, cinder beds and lava flows on Hawai'i, Kaua'i, Maui, Moloka'i and O'ahu.

Ohelo ai Hawaiian blueberries journey through five-plus-year life cycles as cinder soil-tolerant, wind-resistant perennial shrubs at 2,000- to 12,140-foot (609.6- to 3,700-meter) altitudes above sea level.

The Hawaiian islands-only endemic, known scientifically by Sir James Edward Smith's (Dec. 2, 1759-March 17, 1828) taxonomy, keeps vulnerable nēnē Hawaiian geese (Branta sandvicensis) nutritiously nourished.

Sunlit, well-draining maximum 100-inch (2,540-millimeter) annual rainfall leads to each cross-pollinated or self-pollinated fruit lodging 50 to 200 non-viable, small, white-brown or viable, plump, brownish seeds. Elliptical, round or triangle-shaped, brown-white to red-brown seeds manifest six- to 12-month viabilities at temperatures of 93.2 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit (34 to 36 degrees Celsius). Nineteen-day germinations necessitate daylight temperatures of 80-plus degrees Fahrenheit (26.66 degrees Celsius), 14 hours of daylight and night-time temperatures of 55 degrees Fahrenheit (12.77 degrees Celsius).

Ohelo ai Hawaiian blueberries, organized scientifically as Vaccinium reticulatum (from Greek ὑάκινθος, "hyacinth-blue" or Latin bacca, "berry" and from Latin rēticulātus, "net-like"), occur June through November.

Flower production prompts within 50 to 60 days black, blue-purple, green-yellow, orange-yellow, pink, red, red-purple or yellow berries with 0.25- to 0.50-inch (0.64- to 1.27-centimeter) diameters.

Green-yellow, red, red-striped yellow or yellow, single, tube-shaped, 0.25-inch- (0.64-centimeter-) long flowers with five petals and 10 stamens queue at the leaf bases of five-year-old bushes. The scientific name respects net-like veins on evergreen, leathery, oval, shiny-smooth to furry or hairy-surfaced, smooth-edged or toothed, 0.38- to 1.25-inch- (0.96- to 3.18-centimeter-) long leaves. The bushy perennials sustain underground-stemmed rhizomes (from Greek ῥίζα, "root") as three-year-olds and 3.94- to 51.18- to 78.74-inch (0.1- to 1.3- to 2-meter) heights as five-plus-year-olds.

Absent brothers and romantic trysts thematically team Hina and Kahikiula around ohelo ai Hawaiian blueberries with Higgins and Ethan Shah (Jay Ali) after emergency medical care.

Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks) and Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Jay Hernandez) in "Double Jeopardy," first episode of Magnum P.I.'s third season; Juliet's gunshot wound in "Double Jeopardy" numbers as her third in the series, with her first gunshot wounding in "I Saw the Sun Rise" (Season I pilot) and second in "Blood in the Water" (Season I episode 19): Magnum P.I. @ MagnumPICBS, via Facebook Dec. 4, 2020

Acknowledgment

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

Image credits:

The fruits of ohelo ai, Hawaii's endemic blueberry (Vaccinium reticulatum), can display great color ranges, including black, blue, orange, purple, red and yellow; Kalahaku Overlook, Haleakala National Park, East Maui; Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2001, 14:56:19: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Starr_011107-0043_Vaccinium_reticulatum.jpg; Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 4.0 International, via Starr Environmental @ http://www.starrenvironmental.com/images/image/?q=24175635629; Forest and Kim Starr (Starr Environmental), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/starr-environmental/24175635629/

Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks) and Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Jay Hernandez) in "Double Jeopardy," first episode of Magnum P.I.'s third season; Juliet's gunshot wound in "Double Jeopardy" numbers as her third in the series, with her first gunshot wounding in "I Saw the Sun Rise" (Season I pilot) and second in "Blood in the Water" (Season I episode 19): Magnum P.I. @ MagnumPICBS, via Facebook Dec. 4, 2020, @ https://www.facebook.com/MagnumPICBS/photos/a.188324141812283/741926909785334/

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