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Plums
Most rated Prunus records are fire-resistant — 20 of 37 records, including the genus rated as a group. These counts describe the cited records — 37 records carrying 222 evidence rows from 60 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Chokecherry Prunus Fire-resistant Consensus 11 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
19 species
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Wild black cherry Fire-resistant Prunus serotina -
Chokecherry Fire-resistant Prunus virginiana -
American plum Fire-resistant Prunus americana -
Purpleleaf plum Fire-resistant Prunus cerasifera 'Atropurpurea' -
Western sandcherry Fire-resistant Prunus besseyi -
Wild Red Cherry Fire-resistant Prunus pennsylvanica -
Chickasaw plum Fire-resistant Prunus angustifolia -
Nanking Cherry Fire-resistant Prunus tomentosa -
Weeping Higan cherry Fire-resistant Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula' -
Yoshino cherry Fire-resistant Prunus x yedoensis -
Bird cherry Fire-resistant Prunus avium -
Mahaleb cherry Fire-resistant Prunus mahaleb -
Cherry-laurel Fire-resistant Prunus lauracerasus -
Mayday Tree Fire-resistant Prunus padus -
Peach Fire-resistant Prunus persica -
Ansu apricot Fire-resistant Prunus armeniaca var. ansu -
Flowering Almond Fire-resistant Prunus glandulosa - Arañón Fire-resistant Prunus spinosa
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Sargent's Cherry Fire-resistant Prunus sargentii
Documented conflict
2 species
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Kwanzan flowering cherry Documented conflict Prunus serrulata 'Kwanzan' -
Portuguese laurel Documented conflict Prunus lusitanica
Awaiting evidence
15 species
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Cherry-Laurel Awaiting evidence Prunus caroliniana - Prunus speciosa Awaiting evidence Prunus speciosa
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Bitter Cherry Awaiting evidence Prunus emarginata - Prunus polystachya Awaiting evidence Prunus polystachya
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Amur Cherry Awaiting evidence Prunus maackii -
Double Flowering Plum Awaiting evidence Prunus triloba - Plum, Mexican Awaiting evidence Prunus mexicana
- Prunus amygdalus Awaiting evidence Prunus amygdalus
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Sandcherry Awaiting evidence Prunus x cistena - ウメ Awaiting evidence Prunus mume
- Armeniaca sibirica Awaiting evidence Prunus sibirica
- Blireana plum Awaiting evidence Prunus x blireana
- Catalina cherry Awaiting evidence Prunus lyonii
- Holly leaf or Islay Cherry Awaiting evidence Prunus ilicifolia
- Prunus davidiana Awaiting evidence Prunus davidiana
About plums
Corpus context. Prunus is the directory's #5 largest of 550 genus groups: 37 records carrying 222 evidence rows from 60 cited sources, recorded as tree, shrub , hardy across USDA zones 2–10. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Prunus: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.