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Camellias
Camellia sp.
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1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
- Fire-performance conditions
- 1 condition stated in cited fire-evidence rows.
- Fire ecology context
- No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
- Placement evidence
- 3 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Dorset, United Kingdom; Japan; Marin County, California; South Carolina; Tasmania, Australia
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
Typed publication scope: 2 scopes across 2 cited fire sources
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- No state distribution is normalized.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
- USDA hardiness
- No hardiness value is normalized.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
- Legal-list status
- Set a location for an exact legal-list result; source silence is not clearance.
- Seed-list status
- Set a location to compare the separate state noxious-weed seed layer.
- Reported invasive here
- No ecological invasive report is normalized; that does not prove noninvasiveness.
- Broader regional context
- Aggregate AK, HI, and L48 evidence is shown only as regional context, never as an exact-state finding.
- Federal context
- Federal designations remain separate from state legal-list results.
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.
- Form
- shrub
- Region
- Tasmania, Australia
- Rated in
- Dorset, United Kingdom; Japan; Marin County, California; South Carolina +1
- Family
- Theaceae
- Evidence
- 5 cited sources
Conditions in the fire evidence
Where its sources say to plant it
- Fire Resisting Garden Plants for the Urban Fringe and Rur…: acceptable in the Building Protection Zone
- Tree fire-protection classification in Hito to Shinrin: ツバキ類 — Table 10-2
- Landscaping Can Be Attractive & FIREWISE: SHRUBS
The evidence
Recommends (4)
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Fire Resisting Garden Plants for the Urban Fringe and Rural Areas
“Low Flammability”
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Fire-Resistant Plants Common to Marin County
“listed as fire-resistant”
Fire Safe Marin lists this taxon among fire-resistant plants common to Marin County.
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Tree fire-protection classification in Hito to Shinrin (人と森林)
“大”
Table 10-2 prints ツバキ類 in the large fire-protection-power class. The Kagoshima reproduction says highly fire-protective trees can slow spread, promote upward dispersal of heat and smoke, and intercept flying embers.
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Landscaping Can Be Attractive & FIREWISE (Fire Smart Plant List for SC)
“LESS Flammable Plants with some fire resistance”
Listed as Camellia. The source says highly flammable plants ignite faster and burn readily; less flammable plants have some fire resistance.
Avoids (1)
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Protecting your home from wildfire — plants and tips that can reduce your risk
“Red traffic-light class — Camelia”
The leaflet rates the group at genus level (dead, dry parts can produce flames over 2.5 m; keep away from the home or shed).
