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Florida soapberry has limited evidence in the source record. Its green condition remains attached under test conditions, where the test context stays visible. The page holds those details in a genus-rank umbrella, not as a result for every soapberry species.
The complete evidence table preserves support depth, condition, and source rank together. The genus picker separates individual records when a planting decision requires species evidence. That boundary keeps the green condition from becoming a shared result and leaves the limited pack at its documented scope. That scope remains explicit during any species comparison.
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On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
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.
Conditions in the fire evidence
These describe tested or rated plant material. They are not horticultural maintenance instructions.
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.
Landscaping in Florida with Fire in Mind: inside defensible space [ufifas-for71-defensible-space] (with its recommendation)
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.