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Eriobotrya japonica
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1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
- Fire-performance conditions
- 1 condition stated in cited fire-evidence rows.
- Fire ecology context
- No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
- Placement evidence
- 3 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Australian Capital Territory, Australia; Global; Marin County, California; Tasmania, Australia; eastern US
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- Documented in CA, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, LA, MD, NJ, OH, PA, PR, WV.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
- USDA hardiness
- Only uncertain or inapplicable hardiness rows are cited; no primary zone is projected.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
- Legal-list status
- Set a location for an exact legal-list result; source silence is not clearance.
- Seed-list status
- Set a location to compare the separate state noxious-weed seed layer.
- Reported invasive here
- 2 ecological invasive reports; set a location to distinguish exact from regional context.
- Broader regional context
- Aggregate AK, HI, and L48 evidence is shown only as regional context, never as an exact-state finding.
- Federal context
- Federal designations remain separate from state legal-list results.
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.
- Form
- tree
- USDA hardiness
- Only uncertain or inapplicable source rows; no primary zone projected
- Mature height
- ~15 ft
- Light
- Full sun
- Grows in
- CA, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, LA, MD +5
- Rated in
- Australian Capital Territory, Australia; Global; Marin County, California; Tasmania, Australia +1
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Evidence
- 9 cited sources
Plant hardiness evidence
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Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector
Source prints 8 · single-value meaning unresolved
Conditions in the fire evidence
Where its sources say to plant it
- Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector: Landscape Zone 3 — 10–30 ft from the structure; thin vegetation, remove debris, and minimize plant massing
- Fire Resisting Garden Plants for the Urban Fringe and Rur…: should be avoided in the Building Protection Zone
- Canberra Plant Selector: filtered result page 11
The evidence
Recommends (2)
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Fire-Resistant Plants Common to Marin County
“listed as fire-resistant”
Fire Safe Marin lists this taxon among fire-resistant plants common to Marin County.
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Canberra Plant Selector — fire-retardant attribute
“Fire Retardant — Yes — Eriobotrya japonica”
The live Canberra Plant Selector marks “Eriobotrya japonica” as “Fire Retardant: Yes.”
Mid-scale / conditional (2)
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Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector
“MODERATELY Firewise (2)”
Edible fruit. Tends to grow like an umbrella in form.
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Fire Resisting Garden Plants for the Urban Fringe and Rural Areas
“Moderate Flammability”
Listed without a rating (5)
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FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database
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“maximum flame temperature (°C): 691.4”
FLAMITS record 16405; Combustibility measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Pacheco2022-1; sampling october to november 2022. Primary study Pacheco2022: Pacheco, A. S., Goodman, H. D., Hankenson, L., Fisk, J. J., Ortiz, A., Marinace, H. M., ... Tng, D. Y. P. (2022). Fighting fire with food: Assessing the flammability of crop plant species for building fire resilient agroforestry systems. in review, preprint.
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“burning duration (s): 11.33333333”
FLAMITS record 16406; Sustainability measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Pacheco2022-1; sampling october to november 2022. Primary study Pacheco2022: Pacheco, A. S., Goodman, H. D., Hankenson, L., Fisk, J. J., Ortiz, A., Marinace, H. M., ... Tng, D. Y. P. (2022). Fighting fire with food: Assessing the flammability of crop plant species for building fire resilient agroforestry systems. in review, preprint.
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“estimated burnt biomass (%): 4”
FLAMITS record 16407; Consumability measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Pacheco2022-1; sampling october to november 2022. Primary study Pacheco2022: Pacheco, A. S., Goodman, H. D., Hankenson, L., Fisk, J. J., Ortiz, A., Marinace, H. M., ... Tng, D. Y. P. (2022). Fighting fire with food: Assessing the flammability of crop plant species for building fire resilient agroforestry systems. in review, preprint.
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“time to flaming (s): 16”
FLAMITS record 18693; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Tian2003-1; sampling ND. Primary study Tian2003: Tian, X., Shu, L., & Zhang, X. (2003). Study on the influence of microstructure of trees twig and leaf on combustibility. Scientia Silvae Sinicae, 39, 8488.
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“energy flux (kW/m²): 18”
FLAMITS record 18703; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Tian2003-1; sampling ND. Primary study Tian2003: Tian, X., Shu, L., & Zhang, X. (2003). Study on the influence of microstructure of trees twig and leaf on combustibility. Scientia Silvae Sinicae, 39, 8488.
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