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Verdicts therefore use only the abstract's author-named effective-heat-of-combustion extremes: taxa named high = avoid; taxa named low = recommend; every other measured taxon = mixed. This is a map of the conditioned foliage-and-twig result, not a whole-plant claim.", "acquisition": { "upstreamLicense": "No reuse license stated on the official USDA-hosted article PDF", "derivedOutputLicense": "CC BY 4.0", "sourceVersion": "USDA-Treesearch-31137-2007", "sourceUrl": "https://research.fs.usda.gov/download/treesearch/31137.pdf", "retrievedOn": "2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z", "sha256": "01243b9c79905d4959547d8bc74f8f9ff919c020c2a86dba84f670e8fd542549" }, "coverage": [ { "channel": "fire-performance", "geography": { "grain": "aggregate-region", "stateCodes": [ "ME", "MD", "MA", "NY", "VA" ], "regions": [ "Northeastern and mid-Atlantic study sites" ] }, "completeness": "partial", "reviewStatus": "reviewed", "scope": "The authors collected foliage and twigs across study sites in Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia, then conditioned and tested the samples in a cone calorimeter. FireApproved publishes 37 exact source owners only as multi-state laboratory context. The source does not establish that every taxon was sampled in every named state, whole-plant behavior, landscape suitability, or state planting guidance.", "asOf": "2007-08-20T00:00:00.000Z", "sourceVersion": "USDA-Treesearch-31137-2007" } ], "notes": "Public full text is hosted by the USDA Forest Service. Thirty-six identified vascular species and one genus-rank Vitis row are represented. Cynanchum cf. louiseae remains held because a cf. determination is not a genus rating; three bryophytes and one lichen remain held because the current directory schema has no defensible nonvascular plant form. Dibble and White overlap the Forest Products Laboratory cone-calorimeter program represented by White et al. 2002 and Weise et al. 2005, so this is one usfs-fpl-cone-tree vote." }, "channelTotals": { "fireEvidence": 37, "range": 0, "status": 0, "hardiness": 0, "maintenance": 0, "fireEcology": 0 }, "items": [ { "id": "rhamnus-frangula", "commonName": "'Fine Line® Improved' buckthorn", "scientificName": "Rhamnus frangula", "url": "https://fireapproved.com/plants/rhamnus-frangula/", "channels": { "fireEvidence": 1, "range": 0, "status": 0, "hardiness": 0, "maintenance": 0, "fireEcology": 0 } }, { "id": "malus-sylvestris", "commonName": "Apple", "scientificName": "Malus sylvestris", "url": "https://fireapproved.com/plants/malus-sylvestris/", "channels": { "fireEvidence": 1, "range": 0, "status": 0, "hardiness": 0, "maintenance": 0, "fireEcology": 0 } }, { "id": "celastrus-orbiculata", "commonName": "Bittersweet", "scientificName": "Celastrus orbiculata", "url": 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