Family: Bromeliaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Grows in tropical climates
  
• Naturalized outside native range
  
• An environmental weed on inselbergs in the humid parts of West Africa
  
• Leaf margins usually (but not always) have saw-toothed spines.
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Spreads vegetatively
  
• Can re-shoot from large pieces of stem

Low Risk Traits:

• Edible fruit
  
• Rarely produces seeds
  
• Self-incompatible
  
• Requires specialized pollinators
  
• Requires full sun
  
• Lack of seed production and large fruit makes long distance and inadvertent dispersal unlikely