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 PR, VI.
Native range
Current cited native range in FL, PR.
Introduced / established
No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
USDA hardiness
Documented minimum 11a; no upper limit is documented.
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
USDA hardiness
Minimum 11a; upper limit not documented
Mature height
~55 ft
Current cited native range
FL, PR
Grows in
PR, VI
Rated in
Global
Family
Calophyllaceae
Evidence
4 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.
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.
Plant hardiness evidence
These values describe the plant source. Your ZIP zone comes from the separate 2023 USDA
Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Whole-zone values stay whole-zone, and a single unresolved value
is not treated as a tolerance range. Different source boundaries stay separate: overlapping
statements are compared independently, while only ranges with no shared zone are called a conflict.
Minimum 11a · no upper limit documented · half zone precision · derived containing band
Exact source measurement: 40°F; mapped only to its containing half-zone.
Source taxon: Mammea americana · source identifier match.
Source location: PlantCharacteristics record 68560, Temperature, Minimum (°F).
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.
4 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
“time to flaming (s): 20.2”
· score 20.2 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
FLAMITS record 270; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Alzate2021-1; sampling ND. Primary study Alzate2021: Alzate-Guarín, F., Muñoz, L., & Amell, A. (2021). Evaluación preliminar de la inflamabilidad de algunas especies de plantas cultivadas en Colombia. Hoehnea, 49, e492021.
FLAMITS record 281; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Alzate2021-1; sampling ND. Primary study Alzate2021: Alzate-Guarín, F., Muñoz, L., & Amell, A. (2021). Evaluación preliminar de la inflamabilidad de algunas especies de plantas cultivadas en Colombia. Hoehnea, 49, e492021.
“ignition frequency (%): 41”
· score 41 (FLAMITS — ignition frequency (%))
FLAMITS record 292; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Alzate2021-1; sampling ND. Primary study Alzate2021: Alzate-Guarín, F., Muñoz, L., & Amell, A. (2021). Evaluación preliminar de la inflamabilidad de algunas especies de plantas cultivadas en Colombia. Hoehnea, 49, e492021.
FLAMITS record 303; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Alzate2021-1; sampling ND. Primary study Alzate2021: Alzate-Guarín, F., Muñoz, L., & Amell, A. (2021). Evaluación preliminar de la inflamabilidad de algunas especies de plantas cultivadas en Colombia. Hoehnea, 49, e492021.