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Barberries
Most rated Berberis records are fire-resistant — 6 of 11 records, including the genus rated as a group. These counts describe the cited records — 11 records carrying 68 evidence rows from 32 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Barberry Berberis Fire-resistant Consensus 9 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
5 species
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Creeping holly Fire-resistant Berberis repens -
Japanese barberry Fire-resistant Berberis thunbergi -
Box-leaf barberry Fire-resistant Berberis buxifolia -
Common barberry Fire-resistant Berberis vulgaris - Mentor barberry Fire-resistant Berberis xmentorensis
Keep away
1 species
Documented conflict
1 species
Awaiting evidence
3 species
- Berberis darwinii Awaiting evidence Berberis darwinii
- Berberis serratodentata Awaiting evidence Berberis serratodentata
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Fremont’s mahonia Awaiting evidence Berberis fremontii
About barberries
Corpus context. Berberis is the directory's #44 largest of 550 genus groups: 11 records carrying 68 evidence rows from 32 cited sources, recorded as shrub, tree , hardy across USDA zones 4–8. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Berberis: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.