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Form
tree
Mature height
~25 ft
Water need
moderate
Rated in
Global
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions
Fire ecology context
Placement evidence
Evidence regions
Global
Maintenance
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in FL, HI, LA, PR, VI.
Native range
Introduced / established
4 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
Documented minimum 10a; no upper limit is documented.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
2 ecological invasive reports.
Broader regional context
Federal context
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.
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.
Source location: PlantCharacteristics record 85303, 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.
Listed without a rating (13)Corroboration (13 rows from 1 source)
13 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
“calorific value (kcal/kg): 6450”
FLAMITS record 1175; Combustibility measurement; plant part wood; fuel live; predrying no; device calorimeter; site Chakradhari2016-1; sampling december. Primary study Chakradhari2016: Chakradhari, S., & Patel, K. S. (2016). Combustion characteristics of tree woods. Journal of Sustainable Bioenergy Systems, 6, 31-43.
Primary study Potts2022: Potts, E., Tng, D., Apgaua, D., Curran, T. J., Engert, J., & Laurance, S. G. (2022). Growth form and functional traits influence the shoot flammability of tropical rainforest species. Forest Ecology and Management, 522, 120485.
Shared row context: plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Potts2022-1; sampling ND.
“estimated burnt biomass (%): 51”
FLAMITS record 15013; Consumability measurement.
“burning duration (s): 39.11”
FLAMITS record 15137; Sustainability measurement.
“maximum sample temperature (°C): 774”
FLAMITS record 15261; Combustibility measurement.
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.
Shared row context: plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Pacheco2022-1; sampling october to november 2022.
“maximum flame temperature (°C): 762.5363636”
FLAMITS record 16399; Combustibility measurement.
“burning duration (s): 23.59454545”
FLAMITS record 16400; Sustainability measurement.
“estimated burnt biomass (%): 29.72727273”
FLAMITS record 16401; Consumability measurement.
Primary study Philpot1968: Philpot, C. W. & Mutch, R. W. (1968). Flammability of herbicide-treated guava foliage. USDA Forest Service Research Paper INT-54. Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Ogden, Utah.
Shared row context: plant part leaves; predrying no; device thermal analyzer; site Philpot1968-1; sampling ND.
