Family: Arecaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Thrives in tropical climates
- A colonizer of heavy disturbed areas
- Armed along the margins with inequidistant, reflexed thorns
- Spiny climbing palm
- Fleshy-fruits adapted for bird and mammal dispersal
Low Risk Traits:
- No reports of naturalization or invasiveness elsewhere in the world
- Will only grow in warm, tropical climates
- Non-toxic
- Light demanding (Shade-intolerant)
- Reaches maturity in 9+ years