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Bhutan pine (Pinus wallichiana)
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Bhutan pine

Pinus wallichiana · Pinaceae · all Pinus records · also called Himalayan pine · Wikipedia

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On pinus wallichiana, Pinus wallichiana sets keep away recommendation. Pinus wallichiana then and limited evidence for wallichiana. The rows do not erase each other on pinus wallichiana. Pinus wallichiana keeps avoid with limited evidence for wallichiana.

On pinus wallichiana, Pinus wallichiana also carries 1 ecological invasive for wallichiana. On pinus wallichiana, Pinus wallichiana also carries same form alternatives for wallichiana.

Use evidence on pinus wallichiana for wallichiana. Pinus wallichiana keeps the sourced table for wallichiana. On pinus wallichiana, wallichiana holds avoid beside limited evidence in the pinus wallichiana table for Pinus wallichiana.

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Form
tree
Mature height
~50 ft
Light
Full sun
Rated in
Global; New Zealand; eastern US
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Highly flammable — location does not change the cited classification.
Placement evidence
1 source placement record; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions
Global; New Zealand; eastern US

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in DC, DE, IL, MD, NJ, OH, PA, WV.
Introduced / established
1 sourced range or established record. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
Only uncertain or inapplicable hardiness rows are cited; no primary zone is projected.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

Reported invasive here
1 ecological invasive report.
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.

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

1

exact source area

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

1 introduced source area · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • Illinois (IL)

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.

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.

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)

Mid-scale / conditional (1)

Listed without a rating (4)
Corroboration (4 rows from 1 source)
  • FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database — Dryad / Global Ecology and Biogeography · Dryad version 9 · original source Corroboration Trait database lineage: meta-aggregator

    4 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.

    • Primary study Cui2020a: Cui, X., Paterson, A. M., Wyse, S. V., Alam, M. A., Maurin, K. J. L., Pieper, R., ... Curran, T. J. (2020a). Shoot flammability of vascular plants is phylogenetically conserved and related to habitat fire-proneness and growth form. Nature Plants, 6, 355-359.

      Shared row context: plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Cui2020a-1; sampling ND.

      • “ignition frequency (%): 85.7”

        FLAMITS record 1464; Ignitability measurement.

      • “maximum sample temperature (°C): 536.4”

        FLAMITS record 1658; Combustibility measurement.

      • “burning duration (s): 29.4”

        FLAMITS record 1852; Sustainability measurement.

      • “estimated burnt biomass (%): 52.1”

        FLAMITS record 2046; Consumability measurement.

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Last verified 2026-08-23. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Pinus wallichiana (Himalayan pine). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/pinus-wallichiana/. Last verified 2026-08-23.