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Apples
Every rated Malus record is fire-resistant — 5 of 12 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is condemned. These counts describe the cited records — 12 records carrying 45 evidence rows from 27 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Crabapple Malus Fire-resistant Consensus 19 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
4 species
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Apple Fire-resistant Malus x domestica 'Braeburn' -
Siberian crabapple Fire-resistant Malus baccata -
Crabapple Fire-resistant Malus hupehensis -
Sargent crabapple Fire-resistant Malus sargentii
Awaiting evidence
7 species
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Apple Awaiting evidence Malus sylvestris -
Crabapple Awaiting evidence Malus spectabilis -
Japanese crabapple Awaiting evidence Malus floribunda -
Lemoine Awaiting evidence Malus purpurea - Oregon crabapple Awaiting evidence Malus fusca
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Prairie crabapple Awaiting evidence Malus ioensis -
Red bud crabapple Awaiting evidence Malus x zumi var. calocarpa
About apples
Corpus context. Malus is the directory's #40 largest of 550 genus groups: 12 records carrying 45 evidence rows from 27 cited sources, recorded as tree , hardy across USDA zones 4–9. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Malus: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.