FIRE ECOLOGY
SPECIES: Tetradymia spinosa | Spiny Horsebrush 



FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS : 
Plants of spiny horsebrush are dormant throughout most of the year on
the dry ranges where they occur.  During a fire this shrub burns rapidly
with little heat transferred downward into the roots.  Fire stimulates
root buds of the species to sprout [12].  A low-intensity fire may
stimulate this species to initiate new shoots from rhizomes.
 


POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY : 
   Small shrub, adventitious-bud root crown
   Rhizomatous shrub, rhizome in soil
   Ground residual colonizer (on-site, initial community)

Related categories for Species: Tetradymia spinosa | Spiny Horsebrush