Family: Moringaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Grows in tropical climates
  
• Gap colonizer
  
• Other Moringa species have weedy traits and tendencies
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• Rapid growth rate (1 m/yr)
  
• Reaches maturity in 3+ years
  
• Seeds possibly dispersed by wind, gravity and intentionally by people
  
• Limited ecological information may limit accuracy of risk prediction

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of invasiveness or naturalization, but no evidence of widespread introduction outside native range
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Provides fodder for livestock
  
• Medicinal uses
  
• Light demanding
  
• Grows on calcareous soils in native range
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively