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Hop Wattle (Acacia stricta)
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Hop Wattle

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Hop Wattle carries an avoid direction on the evidence table. The Acacia stricta pack remains limited evidence, and same-form alternatives are available under related plants.

The genus index places stricta among its congeners without lending their evidence to this card. Its three selected facts retain different jobs: computed direction, source-depth notice, and form-matched comparison. A return to the accepted rows keeps the avoid result inspectable. Neither an alternative nor a genus neighbor becomes an extra cited finding for stricta; the record remains bounded to its own source and comparison channels.

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Form
shrub
Region
Australia; Tasmania, Australia
Rated in
Global; Tasmania, Australia
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

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

2. Why this plant is relevant here

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

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.

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.

Avoids (1)

Listed without a rating (2)
Corroboration (2 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

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

    • Primary study Dickinson1985: Dickinson, K. J. M., & Kirkpatrick, J. B. (1985). The flammability and energy content of some important plant-species and fuel components in the forests of Southeastern Tasmania. Journal of Biogeography, 12, 121-134.

      Shared row context: plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Dickinson1985-1; sampling winter.

      • “calorific value (kcal/kg): 5509.08”

        FLAMITS record 2916; Combustibility measurement.

      • “rate of burning spread (cm/s): 0.38”

        FLAMITS record 2953; Sustainability measurement.

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