Family: Annonaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Naturalizes beyond native range
- Disturbance-adapted (colonizes cleared land)
- Highly suited to tropical/subtropical climates
- Bird-dispersed seeds
- Intentionally planted by humans
- Host to pests (e.g., oriental fruit fly)
Low Risk Traits:
- Climatically restricted (needs high rainfall, warmth)
- Not a serious agricultural or environmental weed
- No allelopathy, thorns
- Not shade-tolerant
- Non-toxic; not a fire hazard
- Low seed production; requires specialist pollinators
- No vegetative spread in wild
- Seeds not wind/water-dispersed or contaminant-borne
