Family: Arecaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Native to the Philippines and thrives in tropical climates
  
• Fruit juice produces irritation , and blisters upon contact with skin
  
• Shade-tolerant (may be able to invade forest understory)
  
• Tolerates many soil conditions (and potentially able to exploit man different habitat types)
  
• Fleshy-fruited and presumably bird and/or mammal dispersed

Low Risk Traits:

• No records of naturalization or negative impacts have been documented
  
• Unarmed
  
• Landscaping and ornamental value