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Indian hawthorne
Raphiolepis indica
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1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Highly flammable — location does not change the cited classification.
- Fire-performance conditions
- No test or rating condition is normalized.
- Fire ecology context
- No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
- Placement evidence
- 3 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Australia; Australian Capital Territory, Australia; Georgetown, Texas; Virginia / Mid-Atlantic; Yavapai County, Arizona; eastern US
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
Typed publication scope: 3 scopes across 3 cited fire sources
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- Documented in DC, DE, MD, NJ, OH, PA, WV.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
- USDA hardiness
- Only uncertain or inapplicable hardiness rows are cited; no primary zone is projected.
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
- No ecological invasive report is normalized; that does not prove noninvasiveness.
- 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.
- Form
- shrub
- USDA hardiness
- Only uncertain or inapplicable source rows; no primary zone projected
- Mature height
- ~3 ft
- Light
- Full sun
- Grows in
- DC, DE, MD, NJ, OH, PA, WV
- Rated in
- Australia; Australian Capital Territory, Australia; Georgetown, Texas; Virginia / Mid-Atlantic +2
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Evidence
- 6 cited sources
Plant hardiness evidence
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Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector
Source prints 8 · single-value meaning unresolved
Where its sources say to plant it
- Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector: Landscape Zone 2 — 5–10 ft from the structure; maintained lawn or fuel breaks, with easily ignited evergreens avoided
- Firewise Plant Guide: Shrubs
- Canberra Plant Selector: filtered result page 9
The evidence
Recommends (3)
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Fire Retardant Plants: Literature Review and Plant List
“List 2 — Cosmic White™ Raphiolepis indica 'RAPH01' A”
The review says this genus and species appears regularly on multiple fire-retardant plant lists.
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Fire-Resistant and Fire-Prone Plants Common to Yavapai County (Bulletin 34)
“Fire-Resistant Plants”
Listed as Indian Hawthorn — Rhaphiolepis indica. The bulletin says fire-resistant plants tend to resist ignition when irrigated and maintained, while fire-prone plants may ignite readily and burn intensely.
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Canberra Plant Selector — fire-retardant attribute
“Fire Retardant — Yes — Raphiolepis indica”
The live Canberra Plant Selector marks “Raphiolepis indica” as “Fire Retardant: Yes.”
Avoids (1)
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Virginia Firescapes — Firewise Landscaping for Woodland Homes (430-300)
“H flammability”
Salt and wind tolerant. Use in warm climates.
Mid-scale / conditional (2)
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Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector
“AT RISK Firewise (3)”
Used in adverse landscape locations-waxy pink flowers.
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“medium”
The table rates Indian Hawthorne — Rhaphiolepis indica medium for flammability hazard, defined as the ease a plant can burn at high temperatures for a prolonged time.
