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Milky pine has a measured heat output when burned, but that does not establish whether it is fire resistant.
Also called Alstonia scholaris, it is a tree in the Apocynaceae family and has been introduced in Florida. The useful distinction is between measuring what its wood releases during combustion and judging how the tree will behave in a fire near a home.
Dryad and Global Ecology and Biogeography’s FLAMITS database reports a calorific value of 5,700 kilocalories per kilogram from a 2016 study of tree woods. The material was wood identified as live fuel, sampled in December and tested in a calorimeter. That number describes heat released per unit mass during combustion. It does not measure how readily the tree ignites, and it is not a fire-resistance score.
FLAMITS brings together measurements across several aspects of flammability, preserving the experimental context of each result. It does not impose a single threshold that turns those different measurements into resistant or flammable ratings. For a homeowner, the figure therefore supplies one piece of information about milky pine’s wood. It cannot, by itself, justify choosing the tree for fire resistance.
Form
tree
Region
Australia; India
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
2 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
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 (7)Corroboration (7 rows from 1 source)
7 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
“calorific value (kcal/kg): 5700”
FLAMITS record 1138; Combustibility measurement; plant part wood; fuel live; predrying no; device calorimeter; site Chakradhari2016-1; sampling december. Primary study Chakradhari2016: Chakradhari, S., & Patel, K. S. (2016). Combustion characteristics of tree woods. Journal of Sustainable Bioenergy Systems, 6, 31-43.
Primary study Potts2022: Potts, E., Tng, D., Apgaua, D., Curran, T. J., Engert, J., & Laurance, S. G. (2022). Growth form and functional traits influence the shoot flammability of tropical rainforest species. Forest Ecology and Management, 522, 120485.
Shared row context: plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Potts2022-1; sampling ND.
“estimated burnt biomass (%): 7”
FLAMITS record 14929; Consumability measurement.
“burning duration (s): 19.45”
FLAMITS record 15053; Sustainability measurement.
“maximum sample temperature (°C): 651.4”
FLAMITS record 15177; Combustibility measurement.
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.
