United States / Grow / mountain-devil
Lambertia formosa
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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.
FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database
Primary study Grootemaat2015: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I. J., Bodegom, P. M., Cornelissen, J. H., & Cornwell, W. K. (2015). Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species. Functional Ecology, 29, 1486-1497.
“time to flaming (s): 6.01”
FLAMITS record 4076; Ignitability measurement; fuel dead; predrying no.
“flaming duration (s): 3.46”
FLAMITS record 4108.
“smouldering duration (s): 10.55”
FLAMITS record 4140.
“burning duration (s): 14.01”
FLAMITS record 4172.
“time to flaming (s): 11.17”
FLAMITS record 4204; Ignitability measurement; fuel live; predrying no.
“burning duration (s): 15.49”
FLAMITS record 4236.
“smouldering duration (s): 12.64”
FLAMITS record 4268.
“flaming duration (s): 2.85”
FLAMITS record 4300.
“time to flaming (s): 3.46”
FLAMITS record 4331; Ignitability measurement; fuel live; predrying yes.
“flaming duration (s): 3.21”
FLAMITS record 4361.
“smouldering duration (s): 11.02”
FLAMITS record 4391.
“burning duration (s): 14.23”
FLAMITS record 4421.
Primary study Grootemaat2017a: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I .J., Van Bodegom, P. M., & Cornelissen, J. H. (2017). Scaling up flammability from individual leaves to fuel beds. Oikos, 126, 1428-1438.
“maximum flame temperature (°C): 629.74”
FLAMITS record 4477; Combustibility measurement.
“rate of burning spread (cm/s): 0.1”
FLAMITS record 4501; Sustainability measurement.
“burnt biomass (%): 83.01”
FLAMITS record 4527; Consumability measurement.
Primary study Krix2019: Krix, D. W., Phillips, M. L., & Murray, B. R. (2019). Relationships among leaf flammability attributes and identifying low-leaf-flammability species at the wildland-urban interface. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 28, 295-307.
“time to flaming (s): 13”
FLAMITS record 5980.
“time to smoke (s): 8.3”
FLAMITS record 6067.
“smoke duration (s): 6.7”
FLAMITS record 6154.
“burning duration (s): 14.6”
FLAMITS record 6214.
Primary study Krix2022: Krix, D. W., & Murray, B. R. A. (2022). Predictive Model of Leaf Flammability Using Leaf Traits and Radiant Heat Flux for Plants of Fire-Prone Dry Sclerophyll Forest. Forests, 13, 152.
“time to flaming (s): 21.15”
FLAMITS record 14773.
“time to flaming (s): 13.14”
FLAMITS record 14774.
“time to flaming (s): 7.87”
FLAMITS record 14775.
“time to flaming (s): 4.5”
FLAMITS record 14776.
“burning duration (s): 31.46”
FLAMITS record 14812.
“burning duration (s): 21.06”
FLAMITS record 14813.
“burning duration (s): 15.43”
FLAMITS record 14814.
“burning duration (s): 12.94”
FLAMITS record 14815.
Primary study Murray2023: Murray, B. R., Hawthorne, T., Curran, T. J., Krix, D. W., Wallace, M. I., Young, K., ... & Webb, J. K. (2023). Shoot flammability patterns among plant species of the wildlandurban interface in the fire-prone Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. International Journal of Wildland Fire, Online early.
“time to flaming (s): 2.05”
FLAMITS record 19405; Ignitability measurement.
“burning duration (s): 35.05”
FLAMITS record 19406; Sustainability measurement.
“maximum flame temperature (°C): 470.66”
FLAMITS record 19407; Combustibility measurement.
“estimated burnt biomass (%): 30.22”
FLAMITS record 19408; Consumability measurement.
