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Privets
Most rated Ligustrum records are fire-resistant — 4 of 8 records, including the genus rated as a group. These counts describe the cited records — 8 records carrying 93 evidence rows from 29 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Privet Ligustrum sp. Fire-resistant Limited evidence 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
3 species
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California privet Fire-resistant Ligustrum ovalifolium -
Evergreen privit Fire-resistant Ligustrum lucidum -
Japanese privit Fire-resistant Ligustrum japonicum
Documented conflict
1 species
Awaiting evidence
3 species
- Chinese privit Awaiting evidence Ligustrum sinense
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Golden Vicary Privet Awaiting evidence Ligustrum x vicaryi -
Border Privet Awaiting evidence Ligustrum obtusifolium
About privets
Corpus context. Ligustrum is the directory's #85 largest of 550 genus groups: 8 records carrying 93 evidence rows from 29 cited sources, recorded as shrub, tree , hardy across USDA zones 4–6. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Ligustrum: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.