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Australian cheesewood (Pittosporum undulatum)
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Australian cheesewood

Pittosporum undulatum · Pittosporaceae · all Pittosporum records · also called Sweet Pittosporum · Wikipedia

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Pittosporum undulatum holds keep away recommendation. On pittosporum undulatum, limited evidence is the next pittosporum undulatum fact. The banner is not the whole file — Pittosporum undulatum. avoid does not replace limited evidence on pittosporum undulatum.

On pittosporum undulatum, Pittosporum undulatum also carries invasive risk for pittosporum undulatum. On pittosporum undulatum, Pittosporum undulatum also carries seed list for pittosporum undulatum. On pittosporum undulatum, Pittosporum undulatum also carries 2 ecological invasive for pittosporum undulatum.

Use evidence on pittosporum undulatum for pittosporum undulatum. The citations remain on Pittosporum undulatum for pittosporum undulatum.

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Form
tree
Rated in
Global; Marin County, California; Tasmania, Australia
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Highly flammable — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions
1 condition stated in cited fire-evidence rows.
Placement evidence
1 source placement record; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions
Global; Marin County, California; Tasmania, Australia
Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source
  • Fire-Resistant Plants Common to Marin County · Official scoped edition
    • Marin County (CA footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2019-01-01

      The publication is explicitly limited to plants common to Marin County. FireApproved publishes 104 exact owners as Marin regional context while retaining its placement, spacing, irrigation, and maintenance boundary. It is not statewide California guidance or parcel suitability.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in CA, HI.
Introduced / established
2 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

Seed-list status
1 state noxious-weed seed record; the Place chip matches exact scope.
Reported invasive here
2 ecological invasive reports.
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

2

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

2 introduced source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • California (CA)
  • Hawaii (HI)

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.

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.

Recommends (1)

Corroboration (1 rows from 1 source)

Avoids (1)

Listed without a rating (14)
Corroboration (14 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

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

    • Primary study Gill1996: Gill, M., & Moore, P. (1996). Ignitibility of leaves of Australian plants. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, CSIRO Plant Industry.

      Shared row context: Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; device muffle furnace; site Gill1996-1; sampling march to april.

      • “time to flaming (s): 16.99”

        FLAMITS record 3851; predrying no.

      • “time to flaming (s): 3.59”

        FLAMITS record 3900; predrying yes.

    • “time to flaming (s): 10.93”

      FLAMITS record 9711; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device muffle furnace; site Murray2013-1; sampling march to april. Primary study Murray2013: Murray, B. R., Hardstaff, L. K., & Phillips, M. L. (2013). Differences in leaf flammability, leaf traits and flammability-trait relationships between native and exotic plant species of dry sclerophyll forest. PLoS One, 8, e79205.

    • Primary study Salvo2015: Salvo-Aires, F. (2015). Effects of woody weeds on fuels and fire behaviour in Eastern Australian forests and woodlands. PhD. Dissertation. University of Sydney.

      Shared row context: plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Salvo2015-1; sampling ND.

      • “time to flaming (s): 11”

        FLAMITS record 11657; Ignitability measurement.

      • Shared measurement context: Combustibility measurement.

        • “maximum energy flux (kW/m²): 183”

          FLAMITS record 11694.

        • “mass loss rate (g/s): 0.13”

          FLAMITS record 11768.

        • “calorific value (kcal/kg): 3656.73”

          FLAMITS record 11842.

        • “energy flux (kW/m²): 140”

          FLAMITS record 11879.

      • “flaming duration (s): 103”

        FLAMITS record 11731; Sustainability measurement.

      • “burnt biomass (%): 89”

        FLAMITS record 11805; Consumability measurement.

    • 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 wildland–urban interface in the fire-prone Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. International Journal of Wildland Fire, Online early.

      Shared row context: plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Murray2023-1; sampling ND.

      • “time to flaming (s): 3.36”

        FLAMITS record 19445; Ignitability measurement.

      • “burning duration (s): 5.54”

        FLAMITS record 19446; Sustainability measurement.

      • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 370.09”

        FLAMITS record 19447; Combustibility measurement.

      • “estimated burnt biomass (%): 7.81”

        FLAMITS record 19448; Consumability measurement.

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Pittosporum undulatum (Sweet Pittosporum). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/pittosporum-undulatum/. Last verified 2026-08-23.