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Cheesewoods
Most rated Pittosporum records are fire-resistant — 8 of 13 records, including the genus rated as a group. These counts describe the cited records — 13 records carrying 124 evidence rows from 29 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Pittosporums Pittosporum spp. Keep away Limited evidence 3 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
8 species
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Japanese pittosporum Fire-resistant Pittosporum tobira -
Karo Fire-resistant Pittosporum crassifolium -
Pittosporum divaricatum Fire-resistant Pittosporum divaricatum -
Cheesewood Fire-resistant Pittosporum bicolor -
Butterbush Fire-resistant Pittosporum phylliraeoides -
Pittosporum rigidum Fire-resistant Pittosporum rigidum -
Rough-fruit Pittosporum Fire-resistant Pittosporum revolutum -
Weeping Pittosporum Fire-resistant Pittosporum angustifolium
Keep away
1 species
Awaiting evidence
3 species
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Tarata Awaiting evidence Pittosporum eugenioides -
Kohukohu Awaiting evidence Pittosporum tenuifolium - Pittosporum venulosum Awaiting evidence Pittosporum venulosum
About cheesewoods
Corpus context. Pittosporum is the directory's #36 largest of 550 genus groups: 13 records carrying 124 evidence rows from 29 cited sources, recorded as shrub, tree , hardy across USDA zones 7–7. Recorded trait flags: 1 carry invasive risk flags — each cited on its page. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Pittosporum: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.