Family: Moringaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Grows in arid tropical climates
  
• Other Moringa species have weedy traits and tendencies
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• Rapid growth rate
  
• Reaches maturity in 3+ years
  
• Seeds dispersed by wind, gravity and intentionally by people
  
• Seeds may persist in the soil for >1 year
  
• Tolerates pollarding and pruning
  
• 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)
  
• Palatable to browsing and grazing animals
  
• Source of seed oil
  
• Medicinal uses
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively