Oriental bittersweet
Celastrus paniculatus
A genus split is not a placement verdict.
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- Form
- vine
- Rated in
- Global
United States / Grow / Oriental bittersweet
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
- Fire-performance conditions
- Fire ecology context
- Placement evidence
- Evidence regions
- Global
- Maintenance
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- Documented in FL.
- Native range
- Introduced / established
- 1 sourced range or established record. This is not an invasive warning.
- 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
Listed without a rating (1)
Corroboration (1 rows from 1 source)
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FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database
“calorific value (kcal/kg): 6160”
FLAMITS record 1141; Combustibility measurement; plant part wood; fuel live; predrying no; device calorimeter; site Chakradhari2016-1; sampling december. Primary study Chakradhari2016: Chakradhari, S., & Patel, K. S. (2016). Combustion characteristics of tree woods. Journal of Sustainable Bioenergy Systems, 6, 31-43.
