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Fire Resistant and Retardant Plants is the source that places pigface, Carpobrotus virescens, in this directory. The list calls the shrub fire-resistant and says it will not burn under continued flame. Its published recommendation appears as on-list in the evidence table.
A single source from Victoria is represented for the species, so the record remains limited evidence. The page reports the source's category without promoting it into a promise about every planting arrangement, condition, or location. Its value is the traceable row and the language used there.
Follow the source table to inspect that row, or move to related plants for other records. The genus page keeps the broader collection together while leaving each species' evidence separate.
Form
shrub
Region
Victoria, Australia
Rated in
Victoria, Australia
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions
Fire ecology context
Placement evidence
Evidence regions
Victoria, Australia
Maintenance
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Native range
Introduced / established
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.
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.
