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Philippine evergreen’s live, undried leaves took 132.39 seconds to flame in a test; that is not a fire-resistance rating.
Dryad and Global Ecology and Biogeography report the calorimeter measurement in the FLAMITS database. The measurement comes from a 2018 study of moisture content, ignitability and fire risk in vertical greenery systems.
Time to flaming measures the delay before the tested material develops flames under the experimental conditions. The leaves reached flaming in that test, but the elapsed time alone does not describe how much heat they released or how a whole planting would burn. The FLAMITS database preserves the measurement’s experimental context and does not impose a single classification threshold across different kinds of flammability measurements. That matters because a precise number can look like a safety grade even when it supplies no such boundary.
For someone choosing Philippine evergreen, Aglaonema commutatum, the useful conclusion is limited but clear: this perennial has a documented leaf ignition measurement. Turning that timing into a recommendation for planting near a home would require a further judgment that the measurement alone cannot support.
Form
perennial
Region
China
Rated in
Global
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions
Fire ecology context
Placement evidence
Evidence regions
Global
Maintenance
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Native range
Introduced / established
1 sourced range or established record. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
2 ecological invasive reports.
Broader regional context
Federal context
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.
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.
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.
Listed without a rating (5)Corroboration (5 rows from 1 source)
5 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
Primary study Dahanayake2018: Dahanayake, K. C., & Chow, C. L. (2018). Moisture Content, Ignitability, and Fire Risk of Vegetation in Vertical Greenery Systems. Fire Ecology, 14, 125-142.
Shared row context: plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device calorimeter; site Dahanayake2018-1; sampling ND.
