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Melaleuca alternifolia splits keep away recommendation on melaleuca alternifolia. On melaleuca alternifolia, limited evidence next to alternifolia on Melaleuca alternifolia. The facts answer different questions for melaleuca alternifolia — Melaleuca alternifolia. On melaleuca alternifolia, avoid does not replace limited evidence for alternifolia.
On melaleuca alternifolia, Melaleuca alternifolia also carries same form alternatives for alternifolia.
Use evidence on melaleuca alternifolia for alternifolia. The sourced rows remain on melaleuca alternifolia. On melaleuca alternifolia, avoid sits with limited evidence on Melaleuca alternifolia for alternifolia.
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.
Where its sources say to plant it
Placement rules below use each source's own distances or named zones, tied to its rating.
They are not interchangeable with the directory's current Zone 0 guidance.
Fire Resisting Garden Plants for the Urban Fringe and Rur…: remove from the Building Protection Zone; avoid in the Fuel Modified Zone [Texas Building Protection Zone] (with its avoid rating)
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.
