Enter your ZIP to see whether this is legal to plant in your state, and whether it survives your winter.
Cinnamomum camphora carries an avoid recommendation. Its pack is limited evidence on the evidence table, with 2 ecological invasive reports retained as a separate part of the record. The recommendation and ecological context therefore remain visible without turning either into an uncited claim about every camphor tree.
Same-form alternatives are collected under related plants. The genus page provides the broader Cinnamomum index, while this card stays bounded to C. camphora and its accepted rows. These routes let a reader compare form or browse the genus without borrowing another species' evidence, changing the two-report count, or diluting the avoid direction computed here.
Global; New South Wales, Australia; Tasmania, Australia
Maintenance
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in AL, CA, FL, GA, HI, LA, MS, NC, PR, SC, TX, VI.
Native range
Introduced / established
USDA hardiness
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
2 ecological invasive reports.
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.
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.
Fire Resisting Garden Plants for the Urban Fringe and Rur…: remove from the Building Protection Zone; avoid in the Fuel Modified Zone [Texas Building Protection Zone] (with its avoid rating)
Planning for Bush Fire Protection 2019: Appendix A1.9 — Exotic vegetation [nswrfs-pbp-a1.9] (with its avoid rating)
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.
“Under adverse fire weather conditions these plants can contribute to the intensity of bush fires.”
Appendix A1.9 identifies Cinnamomum camphora within its main exotic vegetation groups, reports intense surface-fire behaviour for these groups, and assigns them regulatory vegetation fuel-class conversions.
Listed without a rating (17)Corroboration (17 rows from 1 source)
17 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
Primary study Liu2013: Liu, M., Yi, L., Yu, S., Zhou, G., Jiang, H., & Li, X. (2013). Combustibility of fresh leaves of 26 forest species in China. Journal of Tropical Forest Science, 25, 528-536.
Shared row context: plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device calorimeter; site Liu2013-1; sampling ND.
FLAMITS record 9672; 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 Salvo2015: Salvo-Aires, F. (2015). Effects of woody weeds on fuels and fire behaviour in Eastern Australian forests and woodlands. PhD. Dissertation. University of Sydney.
Shared row context: plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Salvo2015-1; sampling ND.
