Phillyrea latifolia - Mock privet

Mock privet (Phillyrea latifolia) is an evergreen Mediterranean tree in the olive family, grown as a clipped hedge and for its fine-grained wood, which produces an excellent charcoal.

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹

Outputs

• Wood¹
• Charcoal¹

Type

• Tree
• Evergreen

Functions

• Hedge¹
• Flammable²³

Footnotes

1. Phillyrea latifolia | Plants for a Future ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

2. Guia de pirojardineria, Diputació de Girona / Bombers de la Generalitat de Catalunya, 2020, rated “desaconsellada” (discouraged) in its master species table ↩

3. Liodakis, S. & Kakardakis, T., “Measuring the Particle Flammability of Forest Species from Wildland/Urban Interface (WUI) near Athens by Thermal Analysis,” ISEIMA Proceedings, 2006, pp. 24-28, classed Phillyrea latifolia as a moderately flammable WUI species “frequently devastated by forest fires” ↩