Kiwi
Actinidia deliciosa
Your local evidence lens
Separate evidence questions, never one approval badge
A genus split is not a placement verdict. Set a ZIP to read the local documented split.
1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Highly flammable — location does not change the cited classification.
- Fire-performance conditions
- No test or rating condition is normalized.
- Fire ecology context
- No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
- Placement evidence
- 2 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Tasmania, Australia; eastern US
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- Documented in AR, DC, DE, MD, NJ, OH, PA, WV.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- 1 sourced range or established record; set a location to match them. This is not an invasive warning.
- USDA hardiness
- Only uncertain or inapplicable hardiness rows are cited; no primary zone is projected.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
- Legal-list status
- Set a location for an exact legal-list result; source silence is not clearance.
- Seed-list status
- Set a location to compare the separate state noxious-weed seed layer.
- Reported invasive here
- No ecological invasive report is normalized; that does not prove noninvasiveness.
- Broader regional context
- Aggregate AK, HI, and L48 evidence is shown only as regional context, never as an exact-state finding.
- Federal context
- Federal designations remain separate from state legal-list results.
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.
- Form
- vine
- USDA hardiness
- Only uncertain or inapplicable source rows; no primary zone projected
- Mature height
- ~50 ft
- Light
- Full sun
- Grows in
- AR, DC, DE, MD, NJ, OH, PA, WV
- Rated in
- Tasmania, Australia; eastern US
- Family
- Actinidiaceae
- Evidence
- 2 cited sources
Plant hardiness evidence
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Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector
Source prints 8 · single-value meaning unresolved
Where its sources say to plant it
- Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector: Landscape Zone 4 — beyond 30 ft; outside the selector's recommendation area
- Fire Resisting Garden Plants for the Urban Fringe and Rur…: should be avoided in the Building Protection Zone
The evidence
Avoids (1)
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Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector
“NOT Firewise (4)”
Sub-tropical Kiwi fruit, vigorous growing vine.
Mid-scale / conditional (1)
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Fire Resisting Garden Plants for the Urban Fringe and Rural Areas
“Moderate Flammability”
