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Form
tree
Mature height
~10 ft
Water need
low
Rated in
Global; Western Chaco, Córdoba Province, Argentina
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; Western Chaco, Córdoba Province, Argentina
Maintenance
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in AZ, FL, NM, TX.
Native range
Introduced / established
USDA hardiness
Documented minimum 6b; no upper limit is documented.
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.
Plant hardiness evidence
These values describe the plant source. Your ZIP zone comes from the separate 2023 USDA
Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Whole-zone values stay whole-zone, and a single unresolved value
is not treated as a tolerance range. Different source boundaries stay separate: overlapping
statements are compared independently, while only ranges with no shared zone are called a conflict.
Source location: PlantCharacteristics record 70919, Temperature, Minimum (°F).
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.
Appendix S5 mean across six tree-form replicates for Celtis ehrenbergiana (tree): MT 221 °C; BL 0.8 cm; BT 14 s; BR 0.05 cm/s; BB 1.50 on the six-category interval scale. Fresh field samples were preheated for 2 min at 150 °C and exposed to the blowtorch for 10 s. The paper gives no directional FL threshold.
Appendix S5 mean across six shrub-form replicates for Celtis ehrenbergiana (shrub): MT 200 °C; BL 2.1 cm; BT 17 s; BR 0.12 cm/s; BB 1.33 on the six-category interval scale. Fresh field samples were preheated for 2 min at 150 °C and exposed to the blowtorch for 10 s. The paper gives no directional FL threshold.
11 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
Primary study Jaureguiberry2011: Jaureguiberry, P., Bertone, G., & Díaz, S. (2011). Device for the standard measurement of shoot flammability in the field. Austral Ecology, 36, 821-829.
Shared row context: plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Jaureguiberry2011-1; sampling september.
FLAMITS record 11900; Integrated measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Santacruz2019-1; sampling ND. Primary study Santacruz2019: Santacruz-García, A. C., Bravo, S., Del Corro, F., & Ojeda, F. (2019). A comparative assessment of plant flammability through a functional approach: The case of woody species from Argentine Chaco region. Austral Ecology, 44, 1416-1429.
