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Ashes
Most rated Fraxinus records are fire-resistant — 11 of 15 records, including the genus rated as a group. These counts describe the cited records — 15 records carrying 108 evidence rows from 40 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Fire-resistant
10 species
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White ash Fire-resistant Fraxinus americana -
Green ash Fire-resistant Fraxinus pennsylvanica - Fresno de hoja ancha Fire-resistant Fraxinus excelsior
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Manchurian ash Fire-resistant Fraxinus mandshurica -
Black ash Fire-resistant Fraxinus nigra - Fresno común Fire-resistant Fraxinus angustifolia
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Blue ash Fire-resistant Fraxinus quadrangulata -
Korean ash Fire-resistant Fraxinus rhynchophylla - Oregon ash Fire-resistant Fraxinus latifolia
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Pumpkin ash Fire-resistant Fraxinus tomentosa
Documented conflict
1 species
Awaiting evidence
3 species
- Fraxinus chinensis Awaiting evidence Fraxinus chinensis
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Fragrant Flowering Ash Awaiting evidence Fraxinus cuspidata - Ash, Texas Awaiting evidence Fraxinus texensis
About ashes
Corpus context. Fraxinus is the directory's #28 largest of 550 genus groups: 15 records carrying 108 evidence rows from 40 cited sources, recorded as tree , hardy across USDA zones 5–6. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Fraxinus: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.