Red Alder
Cunonia capensis
A genus split is not a placement verdict.
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- Form
- tree
- Region
- South Africa
- Rated in
- Global
United States / Grow / Red Alder
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
- Native range
- Introduced / established
- 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 (3)
Corroboration (3 rows from 1 source)
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FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database
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Primary study Burger2015: Burger, N., & Bond, W. J. (2015). Flammability traits of Cape shrubland species with different post-fire recruitment strategies. South African Journal of Botany, 101, 40-48.
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“maximum sample temperature (°C): 430.82”
FLAMITS record 1049; Combustibility measurement.
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“burnt biomass (%): 9.33”
FLAMITS record 1078; Consumability measurement.
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“calorific value (kcal/kg): 4800.8”
FLAMITS record 13552; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site vanWilgen1990-1; sampling january. Primary study vanWilgen1990: Van Wilgen, B., Higgins, K., & Bellstedt, D. (1990). The role of vegetation structure and fuel chemistry in excluding fire from forest patches in the fire-prone fynbos shrublands of South Africa. The Journal of Ecology, 78, 210-222.
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