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greater galangal

Alpinia galanga · Zingiberaceae · also called Alpinia galanga · Wikipedia

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Form
perennial
Region
Australia
Rated in
Global
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
Global

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.

Listed without a rating (3)
Corroboration (3 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

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

    • Primary study Pacheco2022: Pacheco, A. S., Goodman, H. D., Hankenson, L., Fisk, J. J., Ortiz, A., Marinace, H. M., ... Tng, D. Y. P. (2022). Fighting fire with food: Assessing the flammability of crop plant species for building fire resilient agroforestry systems. in review, preprint.

      Shared row context: plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Pacheco2022-1; sampling october to november 2022.

      • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 584.15”

        FLAMITS record 16306; Combustibility measurement.

      • “burning duration (s): 14.141”

        FLAMITS record 16307; Sustainability measurement.

      • “estimated burnt biomass (%): 26.2”

        FLAMITS record 16308; Consumability measurement.

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Last verified 2026-08-25. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Alpinia galanga (Alpinia galanga). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/alpinia-galanga/. Last verified 2026-08-25.