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Blueberry ash has an avoid recommendation in the evidence table. The cited 2017 guidance calls Elaeocarpus reticulatus highly flammable, directs removal from the Building Protection Zone, and advises against it in the Fuel Modified Zone.
A second directional source reports that testing ranked the tree eleventh most flammable among seventy-nine plants. The measurement entries cover live and dead leaves or shoots without ratings. The record keeps its limited evidence label while exposing those different evidence types.
Global; Global compilation (published in Australia); Tasmania, Australia
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.
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)
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.
9 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
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.
Shared row context: plant part leaves; device burning bench; site Clarke2014-1; sampling october.
“time to flaming (s): 3.2”
FLAMITS record 1210; Ignitability measurement; fuel dead; predrying yes.
“flaming duration (s): 10.3”
FLAMITS record 1234; Sustainability measurement; fuel dead; predrying yes.
“time to flaming (s): 12.5”
FLAMITS record 1258; Ignitability measurement; fuel live; predrying no.
“flaming duration (s): 11.3”
FLAMITS record 1282; Sustainability measurement; fuel live; predrying no.
“time to flaming (s): 10.78”
FLAMITS record 9677; 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.
Shared row context: plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Murray2023-1; sampling ND.
