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Wildlife, Animals, and Plants
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FIRE ECOLOGY
SPECIES: Heteromeles arbutifolia | Toyon
FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS :
Following fires which kill aerial stems, toyon sprouts vigorously from
dormant buds located on a rootcrown [55,56,58]. The rootcrown serves as
a source of numerous perennating buds and stored carbohydrates, enabling
toyon to rapidly reoccupy the initial postburn environment [31,38].
Compared with other chaparral shrubs, toyon is relatively nonflammable
[58].
POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY :
Tall shrub, adventitious-bud root crown
Related categories for Species: Heteromeles arbutifolia
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