Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Highly suited to tropical climates
  
• Shade-tolerant understory tree
  
• Nitrogen-fixing legume
  
• Produces viable seeds

Low Risk Traits:

• Not naturalized
  
• Non-weedy
  
• No spines/thorns; not toxic to humans or animals
  
• Poor dispersal: no wind, water, bird, or attachment adaptations
  
• Low seed production; no evidence of long-term seed bank
  
• Requires specific conditions: shade, moist acidic soil, tropical climate