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Ceratopetalum gummiferum
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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.
FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database
Primary study Clarke2014: Clarke, P. J., Prior, L. D., French, B. J., Vincent, B., Knox, K. J., & Bowman, D. M. (2014). Using a rainforest-flame forest mosaic to test the hypothesis that leaf and litter fuel flammability is under natural selection. Oecologia, 176, 1123-33.
“time to flaming (s): 3.1”
FLAMITS record 1206; Ignitability measurement; fuel dead; predrying yes.
“flaming duration (s): 7.6”
FLAMITS record 1230; Sustainability measurement; fuel dead; predrying yes.
“time to flaming (s): 12.3”
FLAMITS record 1254; Ignitability measurement; fuel live; predrying no.
“flaming duration (s): 9.3”
FLAMITS record 1278; Sustainability measurement; fuel live; predrying no.
Primary study Krix2019: Krix, D. W., Phillips, M. L., & Murray, B. R. (2019). Relationships among leaf flammability attributes and identifying low-leaf-flammability species at the wildland-urban interface. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 28, 295-307.
“time to flaming (s): 8.5”
FLAMITS record 5962.
“time to smoke (s): 4.9”
FLAMITS record 6049.
“time to flaming (s): 10.8”
FLAMITS record 6102.
“flaming duration (s): 1.6”
FLAMITS record 6015.
“smoke duration (s): 6”
FLAMITS record 6136.
“burning duration (s): 14.6”
FLAMITS record 6196.
“time to flaming (s): 13.88”
FLAMITS record 9670; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device muffle furnace; site Murray2013-1; sampling march to april. Primary study Murray2013: Murray, B. R., Hardstaff, L. K., & Phillips, M. L. (2013). Differences in leaf flammability, leaf traits and flammability-trait relationships between native and exotic plant species of dry sclerophyll forest. PLoS One, 8, e79205.
Primary study Murray2023: Murray, B. R., Hawthorne, T., Curran, T. J., Krix, D. W., Wallace, M. I., Young, K., ... & Webb, J. K. (2023). Shoot flammability patterns among plant species of the wildlandurban interface in the fire-prone Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. International Journal of Wildland Fire, Online early.
“time to flaming (s): 3.66”
FLAMITS record 19357; Ignitability measurement.
“burning duration (s): 27.5”
FLAMITS record 19358; Sustainability measurement.
“maximum flame temperature (°C): 434.16”
FLAMITS record 19359; Combustibility measurement.
“estimated burnt biomass (%): 13.66”
FLAMITS record 19360; Consumability measurement.
