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White gum (Eucalyptus dalrympleana)
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White gum

Eucalyptus dalrympleana · Myrtaceae · all Eucalyptus records · also called Mountain gum · Wikipedia

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Eucalyptus dalrympleana is traced through Valette's 1990 work on forest-species flammability around the Mediterranean. That study provides the laboratory lineage indexed in the evidence table.

The available record remains limited evidence, while its sourced recommendation is avoid. The entries supporting those two conclusions stay distinguishable in the cited rows.

Same-form alternatives are documented under related plants. They give this snow gum record a comparison route without transferring the Valette lineage, limited pack, or avoid recommendation to a different species. The comparison remains confined to choices supported by this plant's accepted evidence pack.

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Form
tree
Region
France; Mediterranean France
Rated in
Global; Mediterranean France / Provence
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Highly flammable — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
Global; Mediterranean France / Provence

2. Why this plant is relevant here

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

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

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.

Avoids (1)

Listed without a rating (2)
Corroboration (2 rows from 1 source)
  • FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database — Dryad / Global Ecology and Biogeography · Dryad version 9 · original source Corroboration Trait database lineage: meta-aggregator

    2 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.

    • Primary study Valette1990: Valette, J.-C. (1990). Flammabilities of Mediterranean forest species. Effects on the combustibility of the forest communities inflammabilités des espèces forestières méditerranéennes. Conséquences sur la combustibilité des formations forestières. Revue forestière française, 42, 76-92.

      Shared row context: Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Valette1990-1; sampling june to september.

      • “flammability value: 5”

        FLAMITS record 13361.

      • “flammability value: 5”

        FLAMITS record 13362.

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Eucalyptus dalrympleana (Mountain gum). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/eucalyptus-dalrympleana/. Last verified 2026-08-23.