Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Naturalized in several countries where it has been introduced (but not reported in the Hawaiian Islands to date)
  
• Agricultural and environmental weed
  
• Other Acacia species have become invasive
  
• Thorny, with spinescent stipules
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Forms dense thickets
  
• May hybridize with other Acacia species
  
• Seeds dispersed in droppings of animals, by wind (short distances), water and people
  
• Able to reach maturity in 2+ years
  
• Prolific seed production
  
• Seeds form a persistent seed bank (up to 7 years)
  
• Coppices vigorously and spreads by root suckers

Low Risk Traits:

• Provides fodder for livestock
  
• Non-toxic to animals and humans
  
• Mostly self-incompatible
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively