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Persea americana · Lauraceae · all Persea records

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1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence: Fire-resistant — 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; New Zealand
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 FL, HI, PR, VI.
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: 2 ecological invasive reports; set a location to distinguish exact from regional context.
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.

Avocado (Persea americana) — Photo: (c) jamie-aa, some rights reserved (CC BY) (CC BY), via iNaturalist. Species-typical, not necessarily this cultivar.

Form: tree
Grows in: FL, HI, PR, VI
Rated in: Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil; Global; New Zealand
Uses: fruit
Family: Lauraceae
Evidence: 11 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

4

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

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

Florida (FL)
Hawaii (HI)
New York (NY)
Puerto Rico (PR)

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: Flammability of urban ornamental species for use in green firebreaks 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.

Mid-scale / conditional (1)

Low Flammability Plants directory — Fire and Emergency New Zealand (plant flammability testing at Lincoln University) · 2026 · original source Primary evidence Lab-tested lineage: lincoln-nz-tree

“Moderate flammability”

Moderate flammability classification.

Listed without a rating (9)

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

9 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
- “time to flaming (s): 46.7” · score 46.7 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 3440; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Fonseca2021-1; sampling ND. Primary study Fonseca2021: Fonseca, F. M., da Silva Junior, J. G., de Cerqueira Jacobs, R., Kovalsyki, B., Batista, A. C., de Souza Ferreira, T., & Tetto, A. F. (2021). Inflamabilidade de espécies arbóreas para utilização em cortinas de segurança na interface urbano-rural. Biodiversidade, 2, 32-42.
- “flaming duration (s): 5” · score 5 (FLAMITS — flaming duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 3444; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Fonseca2021-1; sampling ND. Primary study Fonseca2021: Fonseca, F. M., da Silva Junior, J. G., de Cerqueira Jacobs, R., Kovalsyki, B., Batista, A. C., de Souza Ferreira, T., & Tetto, A. F. (2021). Inflamabilidade de espécies arbóreas para utilização em cortinas de segurança na interface urbano-rural. Biodiversidade, 2, 32-42.
- “flame height (cm): 10.8” · score 10.8 (FLAMITS — flame height (cm))
  
  FLAMITS record 3448; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Fonseca2021-1; sampling ND. Primary study Fonseca2021: Fonseca, F. M., da Silva Junior, J. G., de Cerqueira Jacobs, R., Kovalsyki, B., Batista, A. C., de Souza Ferreira, T., & Tetto, A. F. (2021). Inflamabilidade de espécies arbóreas para utilização em cortinas de segurança na interface urbano-rural. Biodiversidade, 2, 32-42.
- “temperature at flaming (°C): 337.8” · score 337.8 (FLAMITS — temperature at flaming (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 3452; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Fonseca2021-1; sampling ND. Primary study Fonseca2021: Fonseca, F. M., da Silva Junior, J. G., de Cerqueira Jacobs, R., Kovalsyki, B., Batista, A. C., de Souza Ferreira, T., & Tetto, A. F. (2021). Inflamabilidade de espécies arbóreas para utilização em cortinas de segurança na interface urbano-rural. Biodiversidade, 2, 32-42.
- “ignition frequency (%): 28” · score 28 (FLAMITS — ignition frequency (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 3456; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Fonseca2021-1; sampling ND. Primary study Fonseca2021: Fonseca, F. M., da Silva Junior, J. G., de Cerqueira Jacobs, R., Kovalsyki, B., Batista, A. C., de Souza Ferreira, T., & Tetto, A. F. (2021). Inflamabilidade de espécies arbóreas para utilização em cortinas de segurança na interface urbano-rural. Biodiversidade, 2, 32-42.
- “flammability value: 0” · score 0 (FLAMITS — flammability value)
  
  FLAMITS record 3460; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Fonseca2021-1; sampling ND. Primary study Fonseca2021: Fonseca, F. M., da Silva Junior, J. G., de Cerqueira Jacobs, R., Kovalsyki, B., Batista, A. C., de Souza Ferreira, T., & Tetto, A. F. (2021). Inflamabilidade de espécies arbóreas para utilização em cortinas de segurança na interface urbano-rural. Biodiversidade, 2, 32-42.
- “maximum flame temperature (°C): 537.9333333” · score 537.9333333 (FLAMITS — maximum flame temperature (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 16378; Combustibility measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Pacheco2022-1; sampling october to november 2022. Primary study Pacheco2022: Pacheco, A. S., Goodman, H. D., Hankenson, L., Fisk, J. J., Ortiz, A., Marinace, H. M., ... Tng, D. Y. P. (2022). Fighting fire with food: Assessing the flammability of crop plant species for building fire resilient agroforestry systems. in review, preprint.
- “burning duration (s): 13.667” · score 13.667 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 16379; Sustainability measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Pacheco2022-1; sampling october to november 2022. Primary study Pacheco2022: Pacheco, A. S., Goodman, H. D., Hankenson, L., Fisk, J. J., Ortiz, A., Marinace, H. M., ... Tng, D. Y. P. (2022). Fighting fire with food: Assessing the flammability of crop plant species for building fire resilient agroforestry systems. in review, preprint.
- “estimated burnt biomass (%): 23.333” · score 23.333 (FLAMITS — estimated burnt biomass (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 16380; Consumability measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Pacheco2022-1; sampling october to november 2022. Primary study Pacheco2022: Pacheco, A. S., Goodman, H. D., Hankenson, L., Fisk, J. J., Ortiz, A., Marinace, H. M., ... Tng, D. Y. P. (2022). Fighting fire with food: Assessing the flammability of crop plant species for building fire resilient agroforestry systems. in review, preprint.

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Persea americana (Avocado). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/persea-americana/. Last verified 2026-08-23.