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Brown stringybark has an avoid result in the evidence table. A 2017 source classifies Eucalyptus obliqua as highly flammable, calling for removal from the Building Protection Zone and avoidance within the Fuel Modified Zone.
The evidence pack also contains non-rated measurements of live and dead leaves, including time to flaming, flame duration, calorific value, and burning spread. Those rows provide experimental detail but do not add another directional recommendation. This leaves the page at limited evidence for its computed verdict.
Inspect the source table for the guidance and measurements. Comparisons provide same-form alternatives; the genus index organizes other entries for the genus without transferring their findings to brown stringybark.
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.
38 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): 3.7”
FLAMITS record 1211; Ignitability measurement; fuel dead; predrying yes.
“flaming duration (s): 10.6”
FLAMITS record 1235; Sustainability measurement; fuel dead; predrying yes.
“time to flaming (s): 17.9”
FLAMITS record 1259; Ignitability measurement; fuel live; predrying no.
“flaming duration (s): 10.9”
FLAMITS record 1283; Sustainability measurement; fuel live; predrying no.
Primary study Dickinson1985: Dickinson, K. J. M., & Kirkpatrick, J. B. (1985). The flammability and energy content of some important plant-species and fuel components in the forests of Southeastern Tasmania. Journal of Biogeography, 12, 121-134.
FLAMITS record 9731; Consumability measurement; device burning bench.
Primary study Miller2022: Miller, T. S., Filkov, A. I., & Penman, T. D. (2022). Improved laboratory method to test flammability metrics of live plants under dynamic conditions and future implications. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 32, 277-295.
Shared row context: plant part bark; fuel live; predrying yes; device radiant panel; site Miller2022-1; sampling may 2019.
Primary study Wang2021: Wang, H., van Eyk, P. J., Medwell, P. R., Birzer, C., Tian, Z., Possell, M., & Huan, X. (2021). Smouldering fire and emission characteristics of Eucalyptus litter fuel. Fire and Materials, 46, 576- 586.
