Family: Apocynaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
- Grows in tropical climates
- Naturalizing on Oahu, Hawaiian Islands
- Other species in genus are invasive
- Used as a fish poison (possibly could be toxic to other animals or humans)
- Climbing, smothering growth habit
- Reproduces by wind-dispersed seeds
- Gaps in biological and ecological information may reduce accuracy of risk prediction
Low Risk Traits:
- No reports of invasiveness, but limited evidence of introduction outside native range
- Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)