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Native Frangipanni
Hymenosporum flavum
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1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
- Fire-performance conditions
- No test or rating condition is normalized.
- Fire ecology context
- No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
- Placement evidence
- 2 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Global compilation (published in Australia); Queensland, Australia; Tasmania, Australia; Victoria, Australia
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- No state distribution is normalized.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
- USDA hardiness
- No hardiness value is normalized.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
- Legal-list status
- Set a location for an exact legal-list result; source silence is not clearance.
- Seed-list status
- Set a location to compare the separate state noxious-weed seed layer.
- Reported invasive here
- No ecological invasive report is normalized; that does not prove noninvasiveness.
- Broader regional context
- Aggregate AK, HI, and L48 evidence is shown only as regional context, never as an exact-state finding.
- Federal context
- Federal designations remain separate from state legal-list results.
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.
- Form
- tree
- Region
- Queensland, Australia; Tasmania, Australia; Victoria, Australia
- Rated in
- Global compilation (published in Australia); Queensland, Australia; Tasmania, Australia; Victoria, Australia
- Family
- Pittosporaceae
- Evidence
- 4 cited sources
Where its sources say to plant it
- Fire Resisting Garden Plants for the Urban Fringe and Rur…: acceptable in the Building Protection Zone
- Protect your home and wildlife: Top fire-resistant native plants for Queensland
The evidence
Recommends (4)
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Fire Resisting Garden Plants for the Urban Fringe and Rural Areas
“Low Flammability”
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Fire Resistant and Retardant Plants
“fire-retardant (resists the first flame wave, may burn once dried)”
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Safer Gardens: Plant Flammability & Planning for Fire
“Research indicates that native frangipani trees (Hymenosporum flavum) have very low to extremely low flammability.”
The author website presents this as a research-based example in its evergreen-tree section.
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Protect your home and wildlife — top fire-resistant native plants for Queensland backyards
“It is recognised for its low flammability, making it a suitable choice for fire-prone areas.”
The article presents Hymenosporum flavum among three fire-resistant natives suitable for Queensland backyards.