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cedar wattle (Acacia terminalis)
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cedar wattle

Acacia terminalis · Fabaceae · all Acacia records · also called Sunshine Wattle · Wikipedia

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Sunshine Wattle begins with Fire Resistant and Retardant Plants, the source lineage selected for Acacia terminalis. Its support remains limited evidence in the evidence table, and the accepted rows compute to on-list.

For comparison, other cited forms are available under related plants. The genus page places terminalis in the wider index for Acacia, without treating another species' rows as support for sunshine wattle. This arrangement keeps the single plant-list source, evidence limitation, and computed direction together; the evidence table remains the direct route back to the accepted basis for terminalis itself.

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

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
Global; Victoria, 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.

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.

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Corroboration (1 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

    “time to flaming (s): 24.24”

    FLAMITS record 9651; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device muffle furnace; site Murray2013-1; sampling march to april. Primary study Murray2013: Murray, B. R., Hardstaff, L. K., & Phillips, M. L. (2013). Differences in leaf flammability, leaf traits and flammability-trait relationships between native and exotic plant species of dry sclerophyll forest. PLoS One, 8, e79205.

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

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