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Primrose jasmine

Jasminum mesnyi · Oleaceae · all Jasminum records

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1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence: Highly flammable — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions: 1 condition stated in cited fire-evidence rows.
Fire ecology context: No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
Placement evidence: 0 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions: Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil; Global
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: Documented in AL, FL, GA, LA, TX.
Native range: No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
Introduced / established: 4 sourced range or established records; set a location to match them. This is not an invasive warning.
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.

Primrose jasmine (Jasminum mesnyi) — Photo: (c) Jesús Cabrera, some rights reserved (CC BY) (CC BY), via iNaturalist. Species-typical, not necessarily this cultivar.

Form: shrub
Grows in: AL, FL, GA, LA, TX
Rated in: Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil; Global
Family: Oleaceae
Evidence: 17 cited sources

Native and introduced range evidence

These are exact U.S. botanical-area records from the cited range source. Native and introduced describe biogeographic relationship, not fire performance or planting approval. Doubtful and extinct rows stay visible but do not count as current presence.

Current native

0

exact source areas

Current introduced

3

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

3 introduced source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04

Alabama (AL)
Arkansas (AR)
Florida (FL)

The lossless worldwide derivative is retained once in the research corpus; object pages repeat only exact U.S. areas needed by the local lens. The JSON twin carries the same page assertions.

Conditions in the fire evidence

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

green: Evaluation of the flammability of trees and shrubs used in green barriers in southern Brazil evidence row

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.

Avoids (1)

Evaluation of the flammability of trees and shrubs used in green barriers in southern Brazil — USDA Forest Service (Batista, Biondi, Tetto et al.; Universidade Federal do Paraná) · 2013 · original source Primary evidence Lab-tested lineage: ufpr-cortinas-tree

“Extremely flammable (FV 5)” · score 5 (valette-0-5-live-shoot) · condition: green

Mean time to ignition 10.9 s; mean flame length 13.92 cm.

Listed without a rating (16)

FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database — Dryad / Global Ecology and Biogeography · Dryad version 9 · original source Corroboration Trait database lineage: meta-aggregator

16 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
- “time to flaming (s): 10.9” · score 10.9 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 442; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Batista2012-1; sampling ND. Primary study Batista2012: Batista, C., Biondi, D., França, A., de Assunção, R., Tres, A., Costa, R., ... Kovalsyki, B. (2012). Evaluación de la Inflamabilidad de Árboles y Arbustos Utilizados en la Implementación de Barreras Verdes en el Sur del Brasil. Cuarto Simposio Internacional Sobre Políticas, Planificación y Economía de los Incendios Forestales: Cambio Climático e Incendios Forestales, Ciudad de México, México.
- “burning duration (s): 18.53” · score 18.53 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 447; Sustainability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Batista2012-1; sampling ND. Primary study Batista2012: Batista, C., Biondi, D., França, A., de Assunção, R., Tres, A., Costa, R., ... Kovalsyki, B. (2012). Evaluación de la Inflamabilidad de Árboles y Arbustos Utilizados en la Implementación de Barreras Verdes en el Sur del Brasil. Cuarto Simposio Internacional Sobre Políticas, Planificación y Economía de los Incendios Forestales: Cambio Climático e Incendios Forestales, Ciudad de México, México.
- “flammability value: 5” · score 5 (FLAMITS — flammability value)
  
  FLAMITS record 452; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Batista2012-1; sampling ND. Primary study Batista2012: Batista, C., Biondi, D., França, A., de Assunção, R., Tres, A., Costa, R., ... Kovalsyki, B. (2012). Evaluación de la Inflamabilidad de Árboles y Arbustos Utilizados en la Implementación de Barreras Verdes en el Sur del Brasil. Cuarto Simposio Internacional Sobre Políticas, Planificación y Economía de los Incendios Forestales: Cambio Climático e Incendios Forestales, Ciudad de México, México.
- “flame height (cm): 13.92” · score 13.92 (FLAMITS — flame height (cm))
  
  FLAMITS record 457; Combustibility measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Batista2012-1; sampling ND. Primary study Batista2012: Batista, C., Biondi, D., França, A., de Assunção, R., Tres, A., Costa, R., ... Kovalsyki, B. (2012). Evaluación de la Inflamabilidad de Árboles y Arbustos Utilizados en la Implementación de Barreras Verdes en el Sur del Brasil. Cuarto Simposio Internacional Sobre Políticas, Planificación y Economía de los Incendios Forestales: Cambio Climático e Incendios Forestales, Ciudad de México, México.
- “time to flaming (s): 10.92” · score 10.92 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 486; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Batista2020-1; sampling ND. Primary study Batista2020: Batista, A.C., Biondi, D., & Martini, A. (2020). Flammability of ornamental species for fire management in wildland-urban interface in Paraná state. Floresta, 51, 192-200.
- “flaming duration (s): 18.54” · score 18.54 (FLAMITS — flaming duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 487; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Batista2020-1; sampling ND. Primary study Batista2020: Batista, A.C., Biondi, D., & Martini, A. (2020). Flammability of ornamental species for fire management in wildland-urban interface in Paraná state. Floresta, 51, 192-200.
- “flame height (cm): 13.9” · score 13.9 (FLAMITS — flame height (cm))
  
  FLAMITS record 488; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Batista2020-1; sampling ND. Primary study Batista2020: Batista, A.C., Biondi, D., & Martini, A. (2020). Flammability of ornamental species for fire management in wildland-urban interface in Paraná state. Floresta, 51, 192-200.
- “ignition frequency (%): 50” · score 50 (FLAMITS — ignition frequency (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 515; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Batista2020-1; sampling ND. Primary study Batista2020: Batista, A.C., Biondi, D., & Martini, A. (2020). Flammability of ornamental species for fire management in wildland-urban interface in Paraná state. Floresta, 51, 192-200.
- “flammability value: 3” · score 3 (FLAMITS — flammability value)
  
  FLAMITS record 516; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Batista2020-1; sampling ND. Primary study Batista2020: Batista, A.C., Biondi, D., & Martini, A. (2020). Flammability of ornamental species for fire management in wildland-urban interface in Paraná state. Floresta, 51, 192-200.
- “time to flaming (s): 10.9” · score 10.9 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 11932; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Santos2018a-1; sampling ND. Primary study Santos2018a: Santos, J. F. L., Batista, A. C., Tres, A., Tetto, A. F., & Kovalsyki, B. (2018a). Flammability and combustibility of potential species for use as fuel breaks. In: D. X. Viegas, Advances in Forest Fire Research 2018 (pp. 788-793), Portugal, University of Coimbra.
- “flame height (cm): 4.45” · score 4.45 (FLAMITS — flame height (cm))
  
  FLAMITS record 11941; Combustibility measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Santos2018a-1; sampling ND. Primary study Santos2018a: Santos, J. F. L., Batista, A. C., Tres, A., Tetto, A. F., & Kovalsyki, B. (2018a). Flammability and combustibility of potential species for use as fuel breaks. In: D. X. Viegas, Advances in Forest Fire Research 2018 (pp. 788-793), Portugal, University of Coimbra.
- “flammability value: 4” · score 4 (FLAMITS — flammability value)
  
  FLAMITS record 11950; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Santos2018a-1; sampling ND. Primary study Santos2018a: Santos, J. F. L., Batista, A. C., Tres, A., Tetto, A. F., & Kovalsyki, B. (2018a). Flammability and combustibility of potential species for use as fuel breaks. In: D. X. Viegas, Advances in Forest Fire Research 2018 (pp. 788-793), Portugal, University of Coimbra.
- “burning duration (s): 18.5” · score 18.5 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 11959; Sustainability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Santos2018a-1; sampling ND. Primary study Santos2018a: Santos, J. F. L., Batista, A. C., Tres, A., Tetto, A. F., & Kovalsyki, B. (2018a). Flammability and combustibility of potential species for use as fuel breaks. In: D. X. Viegas, Advances in Forest Fire Research 2018 (pp. 788-793), Portugal, University of Coimbra.
- “flame height (cm): 14.3” · score 14.3 (FLAMITS — flame height (cm))
  
  FLAMITS record 11968; Combustibility measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Santos2018a-1; sampling ND. Primary study Santos2018a: Santos, J. F. L., Batista, A. C., Tres, A., Tetto, A. F., & Kovalsyki, B. (2018a). Flammability and combustibility of potential species for use as fuel breaks. In: D. X. Viegas, Advances in Forest Fire Research 2018 (pp. 788-793), Portugal, University of Coimbra.
- “rate of burning spread (cm/s): 27.1” · score 27.1 (FLAMITS — rate of burning spread (cm/s))
  
  FLAMITS record 11977; Sustainability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Santos2018a-1; sampling ND. Primary study Santos2018a: Santos, J. F. L., Batista, A. C., Tres, A., Tetto, A. F., & Kovalsyki, B. (2018a). Flammability and combustibility of potential species for use as fuel breaks. In: D. X. Viegas, Advances in Forest Fire Research 2018 (pp. 788-793), Portugal, University of Coimbra.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4438.3” · score 4438.3 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 11986; Combustibility measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Santos2018a-1; sampling ND. Primary study Santos2018a: Santos, J. F. L., Batista, A. C., Tres, A., Tetto, A. F., & Kovalsyki, B. (2018a). Flammability and combustibility of potential species for use as fuel breaks. In: D. X. Viegas, Advances in Forest Fire Research 2018 (pp. 788-793), Portugal, University of Coimbra.

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