Earth and Space News: Kokio Keokeo Oahu White Hibiscus Allies Magnum's Bad Day and Farewell

Summary: Kokio keokeo Oahu white hibiscus allies Season One Magnum's Bad Day to be a Hero and Season Two Magnum's Farewell to Love, rerun Jan. 1, 2021.

Hibiscus arnottianus subsp. arnottianus (Aloalo, hau hele, kokio kea, kokio keokeo, pamakani; respectively from Hawaiian 'alo'alo, "[general term for] hibiscus"; hau hele, "hibiscus to move [to Hawaii by early Hawaiians]"; koki'o kea, "hibiscus white"; koki'o ke'oke'o, "hibiscus clear white"; pāmakani, "hibiscus, violet [Viola chamissoniana]); Waiehu, West Maui; Monday, Aug. 3, 2009, 11:14:08: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 4.0 International, via Starr Environmental

Kokio keokeo Oahu white hibiscus allies Season One Magnum's Bad Day to be a Hero Dec. 10, 2018, and Season Two Magnum's Farewell to Love Apr. 17, 2020, rerun Jan. 1, 2021.

Writer Ashley Charbonnet broaches broken-hearted love in the first season's 10th episode and, with Alfredo Barrios Jr., in the second season's 16th episode, series' 36th overall. Tenth-episode director Lin Oeding centers emotional crises around poker game hostess Toni (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) choosing mainland careers over King Kamehameha Club manager Rick Wright (Zachary Knighton). Thirty-sixth-episode director Bronwen Hughes directs Teresa (Meagan Holder), hometown love of Theodore Calvin (Stephen Hill), to honeymoon drinks with Andy (Philip I. Martin) at Rick's bar.

Mainland existences endanger enduring emotions for Teresa more than for Toni, who entrusts Rick with her houseplant, one of the world's exclusively, exquisitely fragrant, white hibiscuses.

The five-plus-year-lived Malvaceae (from Latin malva, "mallow" and -āceae, "resembling") family member forms from brown-yellow, fuzzy, 0.13-inch- (0.32-centimeter-) long seeds germinatable within three to nine days.

Brown or yellow, papery, ripe 0.5- to 1.0-inch (1.27- to 2.54-centimeter) capsules gape open so that their seeds germinate on the ground below or get wildlife-dispersed. Branch ends harbor single flowers whose calyxes (from Greek κάλυξ, "husk") hedge anthers on spreading filamentous tips, capsules within sepals and staminate columns within flaring petals. Four-inch (10.16-centimeter) diameter arnottianus and punaluuensis subspecies versus immaculatus subspecies flowers respectively impart pink, pink-white, white fragrances to red stamens versus white fragrance to white stamens.

Development, grazers and invasives jeopardize kokio keokeo Oahu white hibiscus, Hibiscus arnottianus (from Greek βίσκος, "marsh mallow"; for George Walker-Arnott [Feb. 6, 1788-June 17, 1868]) scientifically.

Arnottianus 1.5- to 4-inch- (3.81- to 10.16-centimeter-) and punaluuensis 4- to 10-inch- (10.16- to 25.4-centimeter-) long oval leaves keep smooth upper-sides and smooth to semi-toothed edges.

Four- to 12-inch- (10.15- to 30.48-centimeter-) long, round-tooth-edged immaculatus (from Latin in, "without" and maculō, "stain") leaves look red-stemmed and red-veined like arnottianus and punaluuensis subspecies. Arnottianus, monitored by Asa Gray (Nov. 18, 1810-Jan. 30, 1888), manages 390- to 2,500-foot (118.87- to 762-meter) altitudes above Waianae (from Hawaiian wai'anae, "mullet waters") coastlines. Punaluuensis, noted by Carl Skottsberg (Dec. 1, 1880-June 14, 1963) and David Bates, nets 650- to 2,200-foot (198.13- to 670.56-meter) Koolau (from Hawaiian ko’olau, "windward") altitudes.

Immaculatus, organized by Sister Margaret James Roe (June 12, 1925-Nov. 15, 2003) and David Bates, observe 50- to 1,600-foot (15.24- to 487.68-meter) coastal northeastern Molokai altitudes.

Mature arnottianus subspecies of Oahu (from Hawaiian o’ahu, "gathering place") present 15- to 30-foot (4.58- to 9.14-meter) heights and 20- to 25-foot (6.09- to 7.62-meter) spreads.

Mature punaluuensis (from Hawaiian punalu’u, "coral dived for [from steep sea cliffs at Punalu’u]") subspecies qualify for 15- to 20-foot (4.58- to 6.09-meter) heights and spreads. Punaluuensis subspecies remain upright, unlike open to airy to compact arnottianus and punaluuensis habits, at 5- to 10-foot (1.53- to 3.05-meter) mature heights, spacing and spreads. All three survive annual 100-inch (2,540-millimeter) rainfall; lowest cold-weather temperature above 20 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 6.6 degrees Celsius); and sunny, well-drained soil pHs 6.1 to 7.5.

Theodore never tells Teresa about Rick's kokio keokeo Oahu white hibiscus, transmissible as 4- to 6-inch (10.16- to 15.24-centimeter), 0.25-inch (0.64-centimeter) diameter air-layered, grafted, semi-hardwood cuttings.

Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez) and Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks) sign on to a romantic tour in order to surveille possibly unfaithful spouses but end up with a murder investigation in Magnum PI's Farewell to Love (season 2 episode 16): What2Vue @What2Vue, via Twitter April 14, 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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