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Banksia spinulosa
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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.
FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database
Primary study Krix2019: Krix, D. W., Phillips, M. L., & Murray, B. R. (2019). Relationships among leaf flammability attributes and identifying low-leaf-flammability species at the wildland-urban interface. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 28, 295-307.
“time to flaming (s): 11.8”
FLAMITS record 5955.
“time to smoke (s): 7.1”
FLAMITS record 6042.
“time to flaming (s): 13”
FLAMITS record 6098.
“flaming duration (s): 0.8”
FLAMITS record 6011.
“smoke duration (s): 6”
FLAMITS record 6129.
“burning duration (s): 11.4”
FLAMITS record 6189.
“time to flaming (s): 17.37”
FLAMITS record 9664; 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.
Primary study Krix2022: Krix, D. W., & Murray, B. R. A. (2022). Predictive Model of Leaf Flammability Using Leaf Traits and Radiant Heat Flux for Plants of Fire-Prone Dry Sclerophyll Forest. Forests, 13, 152.
“time to flaming (s): 13.2”
FLAMITS record 14789.
“time to flaming (s): 7.29”
FLAMITS record 14790.
“time to flaming (s): 4.46”
FLAMITS record 14791.
“burning duration (s): 14.06”
FLAMITS record 14828.
“burning duration (s): 9.86”
FLAMITS record 14829.
“burning duration (s): 8.93”
FLAMITS record 14830.
Primary study Murray2023: Murray, B. R., Hawthorne, T., Curran, T. J., Krix, D. W., Wallace, M. I., Young, K., ... & Webb, J. K. (2023). Shoot flammability patterns among plant species of the wildlandurban interface in the fire-prone Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. International Journal of Wildland Fire, Online early.
“time to flaming (s): 1.23”
FLAMITS record 19333; Ignitability measurement.
“burning duration (s): 27.82”
FLAMITS record 19334; Sustainability measurement.
“maximum flame temperature (°C): 423.7”
FLAMITS record 19335; Combustibility measurement.
“estimated burnt biomass (%): 47.94”
FLAMITS record 19336; Consumability measurement.
