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Maples Acer

Most rated Acer records are fire-resistant — 24 of 29 records, including the genus rated as a group. These counts describe the cited records — 29 records carrying 229 evidence rows from 54 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.

Rated as a group: Maple Acer spp. Fire-resistant Consensus 14 sources rate the genus as a whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never override a species record. ›
Fire-resistant

23 species

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Keep away

1 species

Awaiting evidence

4 species

About maples

Corpus context. Acer is the directory's #8 largest of 550 genus groups: 29 records carrying 229 evidence rows from 54 cited sources, recorded as tree, shrub , hardy across USDA zones 2–9. Recorded trait flags: 1 carry deciduous flags; 1 carry high foliar moisture flags — each cited on its page. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.

FEIS-reviewed species in this group (1)

Each link is exact-species context. No statement rolls up to every member of Acer.

More about Acer: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.

Where rated maples grow

Tagged as growing in 50 states.

An exact bigleaf maple botanical plate is labeled with source-grounded leaf-span and bristly biwinged samara characters. The portrait is not a complete maple key and makes no flammability claim.
FA Exhibit PORT-002. Acer portrait: bigleaf maple leaf + samara. After Sudworth 1908, fig. 182, and USFS FEIS ACEMAC. Public-domain plate. Identification only — no flammability claim. Confirm uncertain material with a regional key or a botanist. CC BY 4.0.

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