Subject: Fire Resistant Plants

From: C Tran <[email-masked]>
Date: 22 Mar 1996 03:55:03 GMT

Colleagues,

Does anyone have any information on vegetation that is fire-resistant? I
do not mean those plants that regenerate or have dormant buds that seed
after a fire, but those plants that (in moderately intense fires) will
NOT burn? I know that plants with high salt tolerance (e.g. Atriplex
spp.) are known to resist ignition, but does anyone know of any sources
of other relevant information?

Your help is greatly appreciated (I may as well thank those ahead of
time).

CT