gray gum
Eucalyptus punctata
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- Form
- tree
- Region
- Australia
- Rated in
- Global
United States / Grow / gray gum
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
- 1 sourced range or established record. This is not an invasive warning.
- 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 (14)
Corroboration (14 rows from 1 source)
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FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database
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Primary study Grootemaat2017b: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I. J., Van Bodegom, P. M., Cornelissen, J. H., & Shaw, V. (2017). Bark traits, decomposition and flammability of Australian forest trees. Australian Journal of Botany, 65, 327.
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“time to flaming (s): 3.4”
FLAMITS record 4544; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel dead.
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“smouldering duration per mass (s/g): 66.34”
FLAMITS record 4554.
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“flaming duration per mass (s/g): 15.63”
FLAMITS record 4574.
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“mass loss rate (g/s): 14.83”
FLAMITS record 4564; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel dead.
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“time to flaming (s): 15.24”
FLAMITS record 4584; Ignitability measurement; plant part bark; fuel live.
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“smouldering duration per mass (s/g): 193.76”
FLAMITS record 4594.
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“flaming duration per mass (s/g): 40.03”
FLAMITS record 4614.
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“mass loss rate (g/s): 5.39”
FLAMITS record 4604; Combustibility measurement; plant part bark; fuel live.
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Primary study Krix2019: Krix, D. W., Phillips, M. L., & Murray, B. R. (2019). Relationships among leaf flammability attributes and identifying low-leaf-flammability species at the wildland-urban interface. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 28, 295-307.
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“time to flaming (s): 8.2”
FLAMITS record 5970.
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“time to smoke (s): 5.2”
FLAMITS record 6057.
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“time to flaming (s): 7.2”
FLAMITS record 6107.
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“flaming duration (s): 4.7”
FLAMITS record 6020.
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“smoke duration (s): 9.6”
FLAMITS record 6144.
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“burning duration (s): 36.2”
FLAMITS record 6204.
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