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Common Broom (Carmichaelia australis)
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Common Broom

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Common broom has an avoid recommendation. Common broom stays limited evidence in the evidence table. Carmichaelia australis reads as avoid in the evidence table.

Carmichaelia australis has same-form alternatives on related plants.

For australis, read the evidence table. For australis, next read related plants. For australis, stop at the source table. Carmichaelia australis is one Carmichaelia record for australis, not a genus substitute.

For australis, the Carmichaelia australis record still uses the evidence table. For australis, the Carmichaelia australis record still uses related plants.

Fire-resistant shrubs instead

Form
shrub
Region
New Zealand
Rated in
Global; New Zealand
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Highly flammable — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
Global; New Zealand

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.

Avoids (1)

Listed without a rating (4)
Corroboration (4 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

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

    • Primary study Cui2020a: Cui, X., Paterson, A. M., Wyse, S. V., Alam, M. A., Maurin, K. J. L., Pieper, R., ... Curran, T. J. (2020a). Shoot flammability of vascular plants is phylogenetically conserved and related to habitat fire-proneness and growth form. Nature Plants, 6, 355-359.

      Shared row context: plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Cui2020a-1; sampling ND.

      • “ignition frequency (%): 100”

        FLAMITS record 1351; Ignitability measurement.

      • “maximum sample temperature (°C): 651”

        FLAMITS record 1545; Combustibility measurement.

      • “burning duration (s): 93.2”

        FLAMITS record 1739; Sustainability measurement.

      • “estimated burnt biomass (%): 64.2”

        FLAMITS record 1933; Consumability measurement.

Fire-resistant shrubs instead

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Cistus salvaefolius slender myoporum
Myoporum parvifolium kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Kurrajong
Brachychiton populneus Spiny Broom
Calycotoma spinosa

Fire-resistant shrubs listed above

Same genus in the directory · the Carmichaelia group page

Last verified 2026-08-23. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Carmichaelia australis (Common broom). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/carmichaelia-australis/. Last verified 2026-08-23.