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Judas-tree is rated fire resistant, though the case rests on two sources focused on managed landscapes and fire-prevention planting.
Catalonia’s provincial government and fire service rate Judas-tree “recommended,” the second of five garden-suitability verdicts. Their method combines published fire-resistance evidence with fuel structure, maintenance, origin, invasiveness, and firefighters’ experience. It also assumes care suited to the species, so the rating applies to a properly managed tree rather than every possible condition. Turkey’s forestry authority reaches a similar practical conclusion, naming Judas-tree among slow-burning or fire-resistant plants to preserve, encourage, or use in forest and fire-prevention plantings.
The agreement matters because the two sources approach the question differently. One is an expert-curated gardening judgment that weighs several landscape factors; the other is an operational direction for vegetation management. Together they support choosing Judas-tree where reduced fire risk is a goal, but they do not make it fireproof or remove the need for maintenance. For this tree in the Fabaceae family, “fire resistant” is a sound but limited practical verdict.
Form
tree
Rated in
Catalonia, Spain; Turkey
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
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.
Where its sources say to plant it
Placement rules below use each source's own distances or named zones, tied to its rating.
They are not interchangeable with the directory's current Zone 0 guidance.
Guía de pirojardinería: suitable inside or outside the 25-metre maximum-risk zone [girona-2020-iuf-25m-suitability] (with its recommendation)
Yanan Orman Alanlarının Rehabilitasyonu ve Yangına Direnç…: Yangın önleyici tesisler; Dere vejetasyonlarının korunması [yardop-6976-operational-fire-resistant-planting] (with its recommendation)
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.
Cercis siliquastrum is rated “RECOMENDADA” by the guide's qualitative IUF garden-suitability method. The method assumes species-specific care and integrates fire evidence with fuel structure, maintenance, origin, invasiveness, and expert fire-service experience.
“güç yanan ve rüzgar perdesi oluşturan otsu veya odunsu bitkilerden — erguvan”
The YARDOP circular directs managers to preserve, encourage, or use this named taxon in fire-resistant or slow-burning forest and fire-prevention plantings.