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Pyrophyte

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Fire acts favourably for some species. "Passive pyrophytes" resist the effects of fire, particularly when it passes over quickly, and hence can out-compete less resistant plants, which are damaged. "Active pyrophytes" have a similar competing advantage to passive pyrophytes, but they also contain
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of Australia actually encourage the spread of fires by producing inflammable oils, and are dependent on their resistance to the fire which keeps other species of tree from invading their habitat.
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volatile oils and hence encourage the incidence of fires which are beneficial to them. "Pyrophile" plants are plants which require fire in order to complete their cycle of reproduction.
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These resist fire with adaptations including thick bark, tissue with high moisture content, or underground storage structures. Examples include:
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specimens. These indicate that frequent fires have exerted an evolutionary pressure on flowering plants ever since their origins in the
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The passage of fire, by increasing temperature and releasing smoke, is necessary to raise seeds dormancy of pyrophile plants such as
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bursting, seed dispersion and the cleaning of the underwoods; if intense, it destroys these resinous trees.
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Other plants which need fire for their reproduction are called
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Index

Pyrophytic
plants
fire

Sequoia sempervirens
Longleaf pine
Giant sequoia
Coast redwood
Cork oak
Niaouli
New Caledonia
Venus fly trap
White asphodel
Aleppo pine
European black pine
lodgepole pine
pine cone
Eucalyptus
Pinus palustris
Cistus
Byblis
Imperata cylindrica
Papua New Guinea
amber
Phylica piloburmensis
Phylica
Burmese amber
Cretaceous
Rhamnaceae
Fire ecology

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