Earth and Space News: Coconut Oil Arms Hawaiian Martial Arts for Magnum's First the Beatdown

Summary: Coconut oil applied all over themselves by martial artists arms Hawaiian martial arts for Magnum's First the Beatdown, Then the Blowback, Jan. 8, 2021.

closeup of canopy and fruits of coconut palm tree (Cocos nucifera), known in Hawaii as niu or ololani; Makawao, East Maui; Sunday, Dec. 31, 2006: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Coconut oil applied all over themselves by Hawaiian martial artists arms Hawaiian martial arts for Magnum PI's First the Beatdown, Then the Blowback crime action drama television series episode Jan. 8, 2021.

Director Eagle Egilsson and writers Mike Diaz, Eric Guggenheim, Aaron Lam and Peter Lenkov bring illegal bouts into Season Three's fourth episode, series' 44th episode overall. Hawaiian martial artists considered olohe (from Hawaiian 'ōlohe, "hairless") masters covered themselves with copra (from Sanskrit कपाल, kapālah, "skull" via Malayalam കൊപ്ര and Portuguese copra) oil. They doused themselves with copra oil, derived from central, dried, edible kernels in hard-shelled, single-seeded coconuts on coconut palm trees, to denude themselves of bodily hair.

No hair entwinable within enemy fists ensured hairless escapes by kapu ku'ialua (from Hawaiian kapu, "forbidden, sacred," ku'i, "to strike" and 'elua, "two") Hawaiian martial artists.

The Arecaceae (from Latin areca, "palm tree" and -āceae, "resembling") family member furnishes one seed kernel within each one of its 30- to 75-coconut yearly maximums.

Single-seeded kernels within hardened, white endocarps (from Greek ἔνδον, "within" and κᾰρπός, "fruit, grain") germinate between 80.6 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (27 and 30 degrees Celsius). Hardened, thin-skinned exocarps (from Greek ἐξ, "out") around fibrous, thick-husked mesocarps (from Greek μέσος, "middle") hinder harming drinkable, edible flesh-, juice-, kernel-, milk-, oil-, water-harboring endocarps. Coconut fruits, as layered, pitted drupes (from Greek δρῠ́ππᾱ, "olive") instead of true nuts, integrate flowering and seeding intervals in the broadleaf evergreen's 100-year life cycle.

Not even 120-plus-day saltwater-logging jeopardized Hawaiian martial artists juggling coconut oil from 11.81-inch (30-centimeter) by 7.87-inch (20-centimeter), 3-pound (1.36-kilogram) coconuts for kapu ku'ialua Hawaiian martial arts.

Coconut palm trees, Cocos nucifera (from Portuguese coco, "head" and Latin nucifera, "nut-bearing") scientifically and niu and ololani locally, kindle coconut-flowered fruits as 6- to 80-year-olds.

Leaf-stem junctions, labeled axils (from Latin āxilla, "armpit"), lodge green-, red-, white-, yellow-flowering inflorescences (from Latin inflorescens, "beginning to bloom") along 40-branched, 4-foot- (1.22-meter-) long sheaths. Cross-pollinated, wind-pollinated clusters manifest toward their bases one to five female flowers with fruit-producing, pollen-receiving pistils maintaining viable ovaries, stigmas and styles and with non-viable stamens. They net toward their tips as many as 300 two-whorled male flowers, like female flowers in their six petal-like lobes and unlike in six pollen-producing stamens.

Coconut trees, organized scientifically by Carl Linnaeus (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778), observed near-15-year-long offerings, as 6- to 80-year-olds, of coconut oil for Hawaiian martial arts.

Thirty to 40-some compound, feather-shaped, green, 15- to 20-foot (4.57- to 6.09-meter) by 3.28- to 4.92-foot (1.0- to 1.5-meter) leaves possess 200-some 2-plus-foot- (0.61-plus-meter-) long leaflets.

Overlapping generations of 22.05- to 33.07-pound (10- to 15-kilogram), two- to five-year-lived compound leaves queue upon 50- to 100-foot- (15.24- to 30.48-meter-) tall, gray-white-barked, smooth-trunked trees. Two thousand to 4,000 adventitious, grass-like roots with 0.39-inch- (1-centimeter-) large fibers reinforce above-ground swollen bases and 20- to 40-foot (6.09- to 12.19-meter) spreading canopy habits. They seek humidity, soil pHs and temperatures between 70 and 80 percent, 5.5 and 7 and 64 and 99 degrees Fahrenheit (3.88 to 37 degrees Celsius).

Annual 59.06- to 98.42-inch (1,500- to 2,500-millimeter) rainfall at aerated, sunny, well-drained sea-level through 3,937.01-foot (1,200-meter) altitudes turn out trustworthy coconut oil for Hawaiian martial arts.

Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Jay Hernandez) and partner Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks) in CBS-TV crime action television drama series Magnum P.I's "First the Beatdown Then the Blowback" (season 3 episoe 4): ShowbizJunkies @showbizjunkies, via Twitter Dec. 21, 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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