Mountain Beech
Fuscospora cliffortioides
A genus split is not a placement verdict.
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- Form
- tree
- Rated in
- New Zealand
United States / Grow / Mountain Beech
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
- New Zealand
- 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.
The evidence
Mid-scale / conditional (1)
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A quantitative assessment of shoot flammability for 60 tree and shrub species
“Moderate/high flammability category (Fig. 2)”
Shoot category from the paper's cluster analysis; samples were air-dried for 24 hours before testing.
