Family: Araceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Invasive in abandoned farmland
  
• All parts of plant are poisonous
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Can smother other vegetation
  
• Capable of spreading vegetatively
  
• Seeds potentially bird-dispersed

Low Risk Traits:

• Reports of invasiveness are from within native range. No evidence of naturalization or invasiveness outside native range reported to date
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Valued as an ornamental
  
• Not likely to form a persistent seed bank