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shoeblackplant (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis)
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shoeblackplant

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis · Malvaceae · all Hibiscus records · also called Chinese hibiscus, Tropical hibiscus

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Hibiscus has 1 ecological invasive report. On this record, limited evidence is the separate fire-evidence depth label. Those are different jobs: one is how much fire evidence exists, the other is an ecological invasive report.

The irrigated test condition is a third fact. Irrigated is the recorded condition; it does not replace the limited evidence rows.

Use evidence for Hibiscus on this page. The irrigated condition stays in its jump so the banner is not the whole file.

Form
shrub
Rated in
Marin County, California; Valencia, Spain / western Mediterranean
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions
1 condition stated in cited fire-evidence rows.
Evidence regions
Marin County, California; Valencia, Spain / western Mediterranean
Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source
  • Fire-Resistant Plants Common to Marin County · Official scoped edition
    • Marin County (CA footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2019-01-01

      The publication is explicitly limited to plants common to Marin County. FireApproved publishes 104 exact owners as Marin regional context while retaining its placement, spacing, irrigation, and maintenance boundary. It is not statewide California guidance or parcel suitability.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in FL, PR, VI.
Introduced / established
1 sourced range or established record. This is not an invasive warning.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

How to read this page

The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

Conditions in the fire evidence

These describe tested or rated plant material. They are not horticultural maintenance instructions.

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

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Corroboration (1 rows from 1 source)

Last verified 2026-08-23. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (Chinese hibiscus, Tropical hibiscus). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/hibiscus-rosa-sinensis/. Last verified 2026-08-23.