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Callicoma serratifolia
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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): 7.3”
FLAMITS record 5960.
“time to smoke (s): 4.5”
FLAMITS record 6047.
“time to flaming (s): 7.8”
FLAMITS record 6100.
“flaming duration (s): 13.4”
FLAMITS record 6013.
“smoke duration (s): 4.6”
FLAMITS record 6134.
“burning duration (s): 34.6”
FLAMITS record 6194.
“time to flaming (s): 10.21”
FLAMITS record 9669; 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 Salvo2015: Salvo-Aires, F. (2015). Effects of woody weeds on fuels and fire behaviour in Eastern Australian forests and woodlands. PhD. Dissertation. University of Sydney.
“time to flaming (s): 22”
FLAMITS record 11673; Ignitability measurement.
“maximum energy flux (kW/m²): 187”
FLAMITS record 11710.
“mass loss rate (g/s): 0.17”
FLAMITS record 11784.
“calorific value (kcal/kg): 3554.02”
FLAMITS record 11858.
“energy flux (kW/m²): 149”
FLAMITS record 11895.
“flaming duration (s): 64”
FLAMITS record 11747; Sustainability measurement.
“burnt biomass (%): 89”
FLAMITS record 11821; Consumability measurement.
