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cootamundra wattle (Acacia baileyana)
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cootamundra wattle

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Cootamundra Wattle takes its fire lineage from the resistant and retardant plant source, titled Fire Resistant and Retardant Plants. The corresponding entry remains in the evidence table.

The accepted pack is limited evidence, as reflected by the cited coverage. This scene therefore keeps the source's role visible without assigning unrecorded test conditions or broader performance values to Acacia baileyana.

The record carries the trait invasive-risk and one ecological invasive report. Those two ecological facts sit beside the fire lineage, while the source table remains the route to the citations actually present in the pack.

Form
tree
Rated in
Global; Tasmania, Australia; Victoria, Australia
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
Placement evidence
1 source placement record; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions
Global; Tasmania, Australia; Victoria, Australia

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in CA.
Introduced / established
1 sourced range or established record. This is not an invasive warning.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

Reported invasive here
1 ecological invasive report.
How to read this page

The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

Native and introduced range evidence

These are exact U.S. botanical-area records from the cited range source. Native and introduced describe biogeographic relationship, not fire performance or planting approval. Doubtful and extinct rows stay visible but do not count as current presence.

Current native

0

exact source areas

Current introduced

1

exact source area

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

1 introduced source area · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • California (CA)

The lossless worldwide derivative is retained once in the research corpus; object pages repeat only exact U.S. areas needed by the local lens. The JSON twin carries the same page assertions.

Where its sources say to plant it

Placement rules below use each source's own distances or named zones, tied to its rating. They are not interchangeable with the directory's current Zone 0 guidance.

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

Recommends (1)

Mid-scale / conditional (1)

Listed without a rating (7)
Corroboration (7 rows from 1 source)
  • FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database — Dryad / Global Ecology and Biogeography · Dryad version 9 · original source Corroboration Trait database lineage: meta-aggregator

    7 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.

    • Primary study Salvo2015: Salvo-Aires, F. (2015). Effects of woody weeds on fuels and fire behaviour in Eastern Australian forests and woodlands. PhD. Dissertation. University of Sydney.

      Shared row context: plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Salvo2015-1; sampling ND.

      • “time to flaming (s): 18”

        FLAMITS record 11639; Ignitability measurement.

      • Shared measurement context: Combustibility measurement.

        • “maximum energy flux (kW/m²): 155”

          FLAMITS record 11676.

        • “mass loss rate (g/s): 0.22”

          FLAMITS record 11750.

        • “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4296.83”

          FLAMITS record 11824.

        • “energy flux (kW/m²): 97”

          FLAMITS record 11861.

      • “flaming duration (s): 278”

        FLAMITS record 11713; Sustainability measurement.

      • “burnt biomass (%): 83”

        FLAMITS record 11787; Consumability measurement.

Last verified 2026-08-23. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Acacia baileyana (Cootamundra Wattle). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/acacia-baileyana/. Last verified 2026-08-23.