Family: Meliaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m
  
• Naturalized in East Maui, Hawaiian Islands, the Galapagos, and in Africa and southeast Asia
  
• An environmental weed
  
• Unpalatable to cattle
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• May from dense monocultures that exclude other vegetation
  
• Produces numerous wind-dispersed seeds

Low Risk Traits:

• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Useful timber and shade tree
  
• Does not spread vegetatively
  
• Long time to reproductive maturity (10-15 years)
  
• Does not form a persistent seed bank
  
• Does not coppice or tolerate heavy pruning
  
• Herbicides may provide effective control