Family: Myrtaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Tolerates many soil types
- Reproduces by seeds
- Hybridizes with other species
- Seeds dispersed by gravity and intentionally by people
- Resprouts from a lignotuber after fire, and tolerates pruning
Low Risk Traits:
- No reports of invasiveness or naturalization, but limited evidence of widespread introduction outside native range
- Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
- Non-toxic
- Grows in full sun to light shade (dense shade may limit ability to spread into forests)
- Reported to be strongly outcrossing (requires cross pollination with another plant)
- Not reported to spread vegetatively
- Seeds lack any obvious means of long-distance dispersal