Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Widely naturalized
  
• Other Canavalia species have become invasive
  
• Seeds are toxic unless cooked
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Climbing and smothering growth habit
  
• N-fixing (may alter soil chemistry)
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• Hybridizes with other Canavalia species
  
• Reaches maturity in <1 year
  
• Seeds dispersed by pods which snap open and forcefully eject seeds
  
• Seeds able to be stored for extended periods and likely for form a persistent seed bank

Low Risk Traits:

• Despite naturalization, no confirmed reports of negative impacts were found
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Provides fodder for livestock
  
• Seeds edible if cooked
  
• Self-incompatible
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Relatively large seeds unlikely to be inadvertently dispersed
  
• Pollinator limitations may result in reduced seed set