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Craibeira

Tabebuia aurea · Bignoniaceae · all Tabebuia records

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1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence: Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions: 1 condition stated in cited fire-evidence rows.
Fire ecology context: No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
Placement evidence: 1 source placement record; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions: Caatinga around Patos, Paraíba, Brazil; Global
Maintenance: No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution: Documented in FL, PR, VI.
Native range: No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
Introduced / established: 1 sourced range or established record; set a location to match them. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness: No hardiness value is normalized.

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: 2 ecological invasive reports; set a location to distinguish exact from regional context.
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: tree
Grows in: FL, PR, VI
Rated in: Caatinga around Patos, Paraíba, Brazil; Global
Family: Bignoniaceae
Evidence: 11 cited sources

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

1

exact source area

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

1 introduced source area · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04

Puerto Rico (PR)

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.

cured: Comportamento do fogo em espécies nativas da Caatinga na região geográfica imediata de Patos-PB evidence row

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.

Comportamento do fogo em espécies nativas da Caatinga na …: three replicated 1 m² outdoor fuel-bed burns [luz-2023-caatinga-burn-trial] (mid-scale rating)

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.

Mid-scale / conditional (1)

Comportamento do fogo em espécies nativas da Caatinga na região geográfica imediata de Patos-PB — Ciência Florestal, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria · Ciência Florestal 33(3), e73573 · original source Primary evidence Field program lineage: ufcg-patos-caatinga-tree

“Alto” · score 124.22 (fire-intensity-kcal-m-1-s-1) · condition: cured · original source

Outdoor fuel-bed means: flame height 115 cm, combustibility index 4, spread 0.0104 m/s, and fire intensity 124.22 kcal m-1 s-1 (Alto severity).

Listed without a rating (10)

FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database — Dryad / Global Ecology and Biogeography · Dryad version 9 · original source Corroboration Trait database lineage: meta-aggregator

10 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
- “time to flaming (s): 48.2” · score 48.2 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 310; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Americo2021-1; sampling ND. Primary study Americo2021: Americo, N., Epifanio, M. L. F. G., de Almeida Sousa, H. G., de Souza, P. B., da Silva, F.d.C.S., Batista, A. C., ... Giongo, M. (2021). Avaliação da inflamabilidade de espécies vegetais do Cerrado. Journal of Biotechnology and Biodiversity, 9, 187-191.
- “flaming duration (s): 7.7” · score 7.7 (FLAMITS — flaming duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 316; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Americo2021-1; sampling ND. Primary study Americo2021: Americo, N., Epifanio, M. L. F. G., de Almeida Sousa, H. G., de Souza, P. B., da Silva, F.d.C.S., Batista, A. C., ... Giongo, M. (2021). Avaliação da inflamabilidade de espécies vegetais do Cerrado. Journal of Biotechnology and Biodiversity, 9, 187-191.
- “flame height (cm): 2.76” · score 2.76 (FLAMITS — flame height (cm))
  
  FLAMITS record 322; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Americo2021-1; sampling ND. Primary study Americo2021: Americo, N., Epifanio, M. L. F. G., de Almeida Sousa, H. G., de Souza, P. B., da Silva, F.d.C.S., Batista, A. C., ... Giongo, M. (2021). Avaliação da inflamabilidade de espécies vegetais do Cerrado. Journal of Biotechnology and Biodiversity, 9, 187-191.
- “ignition frequency (%): 0” · score 0 (FLAMITS — ignition frequency (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 328; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Americo2021-1; sampling ND. Primary study Americo2021: Americo, N., Epifanio, M. L. F. G., de Almeida Sousa, H. G., de Souza, P. B., da Silva, F.d.C.S., Batista, A. C., ... Giongo, M. (2021). Avaliação da inflamabilidade de espécies vegetais do Cerrado. Journal of Biotechnology and Biodiversity, 9, 187-191.
- “flammability value: 0” · score 0 (FLAMITS — flammability value)
  
  FLAMITS record 334; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Americo2021-1; sampling ND. Primary study Americo2021: Americo, N., Epifanio, M. L. F. G., de Almeida Sousa, H. G., de Souza, P. B., da Silva, F.d.C.S., Batista, A. C., ... Giongo, M. (2021). Avaliação da inflamabilidade de espécies vegetais do Cerrado. Journal of Biotechnology and Biodiversity, 9, 187-191.
- “time to flaming (s): 48.2” · score 48.2 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 12707; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Silva2019-1; sampling ND. Primary study Silva2019: Silva, F. C. D. S., Rodrigues-Duarte, B.V., Ganassoli-Neto, E., Viana-Sousa, I., Cardoso-Silva, M.V., Moreira-Santos, M., ... Giongo, M. (2019). Inflamabilidade de espécies vegetais do cerrado stricto sensu. Journal of Biotechnology and Biodiversity, 7, 315-319.
- “flame height (cm): 2.76” · score 2.76 (FLAMITS — flame height (cm))
  
  FLAMITS record 12713; Combustibility measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Silva2019-1; sampling ND. Primary study Silva2019: Silva, F. C. D. S., Rodrigues-Duarte, B.V., Ganassoli-Neto, E., Viana-Sousa, I., Cardoso-Silva, M.V., Moreira-Santos, M., ... Giongo, M. (2019). Inflamabilidade de espécies vegetais do cerrado stricto sensu. Journal of Biotechnology and Biodiversity, 7, 315-319.
- “burning duration (s): 7.7” · score 7.7 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 12719; Sustainability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Silva2019-1; sampling ND. Primary study Silva2019: Silva, F. C. D. S., Rodrigues-Duarte, B.V., Ganassoli-Neto, E., Viana-Sousa, I., Cardoso-Silva, M.V., Moreira-Santos, M., ... Giongo, M. (2019). Inflamabilidade de espécies vegetais do cerrado stricto sensu. Journal of Biotechnology and Biodiversity, 7, 315-319.
- “ignition frequency (%): 0” · score 0 (FLAMITS — ignition frequency (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 12725; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Silva2019-1; sampling ND. Primary study Silva2019: Silva, F. C. D. S., Rodrigues-Duarte, B.V., Ganassoli-Neto, E., Viana-Sousa, I., Cardoso-Silva, M.V., Moreira-Santos, M., ... Giongo, M. (2019). Inflamabilidade de espécies vegetais do cerrado stricto sensu. Journal of Biotechnology and Biodiversity, 7, 315-319.
- “flammability value: 0” · score 0 (FLAMITS — flammability value)
  
  FLAMITS record 12731; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Silva2019-1; sampling ND. Primary study Silva2019: Silva, F. C. D. S., Rodrigues-Duarte, B.V., Ganassoli-Neto, E., Viana-Sousa, I., Cardoso-Silva, M.V., Moreira-Santos, M., ... Giongo, M. (2019). Inflamabilidade de espécies vegetais do cerrado stricto sensu. Journal of Biotechnology and Biodiversity, 7, 315-319.

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Tabebuia aurea (Craibeira). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/tabebuia-aurea/. Last verified 2026-08-25.