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Triadica sebifera

Triadica sebifera · Euphorbiaceae

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1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence: Mixed evidence — 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: 1 source placement record; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions: Australian Capital Territory, Australia; 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 AL, AR, CA, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, TX.
Native range: No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
Introduced / established: 13 sourced range or established records; 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: 1 ecological invasive report; 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: AL, AR, CA, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC +2
Rated in: Australian Capital Territory, Australia; Global
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Evidence: 13 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

13

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

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

Alabama (AL)
Arkansas (AR)
California (CA)
Florida (FL)
Georgia (GA)
Louisiana (LA)
Mississippi (MS)
North Carolina (NC)
Oklahoma (OK)
Puerto Rico (PR)
South Carolina (SC)
Texas (TX)
Virginia (VA)

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.

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.

Canberra Plant Selector: filtered result page 3 [canberra-selector] (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.

Listed without a rating (12)

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

12 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
- “temperature at flaming (°C): 154.16” · score 154.16 (FLAMITS — temperature at flaming (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 13117; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device thermal analyzer; site Tiller2020a-1; sampling august. Primary study Tiller2020a: Tiller, M., Oswald, B. P., Frantzen, A., Conway, W., & Hung, I. (2020a). Initial investigation of seasonal flammability of three invasive East Texas forest understory fuels using thermogravimetric analysis. Forest ReseaRCH, 9, 230.
- “temperature at flaming (°C): 205.02” · score 205.02 (FLAMITS — temperature at flaming (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 13118; Ignitability measurement; plant part stems; fuel live; predrying no; device thermal analyzer; site Tiller2020a-1; sampling august. Primary study Tiller2020a: Tiller, M., Oswald, B. P., Frantzen, A., Conway, W., & Hung, I. (2020a). Initial investigation of seasonal flammability of three invasive East Texas forest understory fuels using thermogravimetric analysis. Forest ReseaRCH, 9, 230.
- “temperature at flaming (°C): 181.76” · score 181.76 (FLAMITS — temperature at flaming (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 13121; Ignitability measurement; plant part stems; fuel live; predrying no; device thermal analyzer; site Tiller2020a-1; sampling february. Primary study Tiller2020a: Tiller, M., Oswald, B. P., Frantzen, A., Conway, W., & Hung, I. (2020a). Initial investigation of seasonal flammability of three invasive East Texas forest understory fuels using thermogravimetric analysis. Forest ReseaRCH, 9, 230.
- “burning duration (s): 950.4” · score 950.4 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 13124; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device thermal analyzer; site Tiller2020a-1; sampling august. Primary study Tiller2020a: Tiller, M., Oswald, B. P., Frantzen, A., Conway, W., & Hung, I. (2020a). Initial investigation of seasonal flammability of three invasive East Texas forest understory fuels using thermogravimetric analysis. Forest ReseaRCH, 9, 230.
- “burning duration (s): 682.2” · score 682.2 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 13125; Sustainability measurement; plant part stems; fuel live; predrying no; device thermal analyzer; site Tiller2020a-1; sampling august. Primary study Tiller2020a: Tiller, M., Oswald, B. P., Frantzen, A., Conway, W., & Hung, I. (2020a). Initial investigation of seasonal flammability of three invasive East Texas forest understory fuels using thermogravimetric analysis. Forest ReseaRCH, 9, 230.
- “burning duration (s): 838.2” · score 838.2 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 13128; Sustainability measurement; plant part stems; fuel live; predrying no; device thermal analyzer; site Tiller2020a-1; sampling february. Primary study Tiller2020a: Tiller, M., Oswald, B. P., Frantzen, A., Conway, W., & Hung, I. (2020a). Initial investigation of seasonal flammability of three invasive East Texas forest understory fuels using thermogravimetric analysis. Forest ReseaRCH, 9, 230.
- “temperature at flaming (°C): 152.42” · score 152.42 (FLAMITS — temperature at flaming (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 13131; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device thermal analyzer; site Tiller2020b-1; sampling august and february. Primary study Tiller2020b: Tiller, M. B., Oswald, B. P., Frantzen, A., Hung, I.-K., Jerez, S., & Weng, Y. (2020). Spatial and seasonal flammability comparisons of native and exotic plants in the Post Oak Savannah, Blackland Prairie, and Pineywoods Ecoregions of Texas. Asheville, NC, USA.
- “temperature at flaming (°C): 158.86” · score 158.86 (FLAMITS — temperature at flaming (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 13134; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device thermal analyzer; site Tiller2020b-1; sampling august and february. Primary study Tiller2020b: Tiller, M. B., Oswald, B. P., Frantzen, A., Hung, I.-K., Jerez, S., & Weng, Y. (2020). Spatial and seasonal flammability comparisons of native and exotic plants in the Post Oak Savannah, Blackland Prairie, and Pineywoods Ecoregions of Texas. Asheville, NC, USA.
- “temperature at flaming (°C): 162.23” · score 162.23 (FLAMITS — temperature at flaming (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 13137; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device thermal analyzer; site Tiller2020b-1; sampling august and february. Primary study Tiller2020b: Tiller, M. B., Oswald, B. P., Frantzen, A., Hung, I.-K., Jerez, S., & Weng, Y. (2020). Spatial and seasonal flammability comparisons of native and exotic plants in the Post Oak Savannah, Blackland Prairie, and Pineywoods Ecoregions of Texas. Asheville, NC, USA.
- “temperature at flaming (°C): 168.4” · score 168.4 (FLAMITS — temperature at flaming (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 13140; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device thermal analyzer; site Tiller2020b-1; sampling august and february. Primary study Tiller2020b: Tiller, M. B., Oswald, B. P., Frantzen, A., Hung, I.-K., Jerez, S., & Weng, Y. (2020). Spatial and seasonal flammability comparisons of native and exotic plants in the Post Oak Savannah, Blackland Prairie, and Pineywoods Ecoregions of Texas. Asheville, NC, USA.
- “temperature at flaming (°C): 168.51” · score 168.51 (FLAMITS — temperature at flaming (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 13143; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device thermal analyzer; site Tiller2020b-1; sampling august and february. Primary study Tiller2020b: Tiller, M. B., Oswald, B. P., Frantzen, A., Hung, I.-K., Jerez, S., & Weng, Y. (2020). Spatial and seasonal flammability comparisons of native and exotic plants in the Post Oak Savannah, Blackland Prairie, and Pineywoods Ecoregions of Texas. Asheville, NC, USA.
- “temperature at flaming (°C): 170.07” · score 170.07 (FLAMITS — temperature at flaming (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 13146; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device thermal analyzer; site Tiller2020b-1; sampling august and february. Primary study Tiller2020b: Tiller, M. B., Oswald, B. P., Frantzen, A., Hung, I.-K., Jerez, S., & Weng, Y. (2020). Spatial and seasonal flammability comparisons of native and exotic plants in the Post Oak Savannah, Blackland Prairie, and Pineywoods Ecoregions of Texas. Asheville, NC, USA.

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Triadica sebifera (Triadica sebifera). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/triadica-sebifera/. Last verified 2026-08-25.