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- From: Richard Archer <permaculture@juggernaut.com.au>
- To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [permaculture] Fire question
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:09:36 +1000
At 12:29 PM -0400 5/7/09, lbsaltzman@aol.com wrote:
>Corymbia ficifolia. I have extensively searched the internet for
>any evidence as to whether it is a highly flammable tree.?
You might have more luck searching for Eucalyptus ficifolia
as this species was reclassified fairly recently.
The tree is not fire-safe, however it's not as bad as many other
Eucalypts. In its favour: it doesn't retain huge quantities
of flammable bark or twigs in its canopy and it typically grows
with or can be trained to have a raised canopy.
With a little regular maintenance (removing dead material from
the canopy and raising the canopy to two metres) the tree should
be reasonably fire-safe.
C. ficifolia can be a magnificent specimen tree once mature
and I would be happy to retain such a tree if the landscape
afforded some protection for the tree and the buildings from
a fire. And I do live in a high fire danger area.
However I wouldn't hesitate to remove a C. ficifolia if it was
overhanging my house or if it was in a group of flammable
plants with foliage to ground level and no screening from the
fire danger zone.
...Richard.
-
[permaculture] stimulate this,
Food Forests, 07/05/2009
-
[permaculture] Fire question,
lbsaltzman, 07/05/2009
-
[permaculture] Water calculations,
Steve Read, 07/05/2009
- Re: [permaculture] Water calculations, Darren Doherty, 07/06/2009
- [permaculture] Water calculations, Steve Read, 07/06/2009
- Re: [permaculture] Fire question, Richard Archer, 07/06/2009
-
[permaculture] Water calculations,
Steve Read, 07/05/2009
-
[permaculture] Fire question,
lbsaltzman, 07/05/2009
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