Family: Arecaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Naturalized (area of origin uncertain)
  
• Spiny (although spineless forms exist)
  
• Self-compatible
  
• Can spread by seeds and vegetatively by suckering
  
• Seeds dispersed by people, water, birds and other animals
  
• Able to resprout

Low Risk Traits:

• Domesticated tree with spineless, larger-fruited, and few-seeded forms in cultivation
  
• Despite naturalization, no reports of negative impacts to agriculture or the environment
  
• Edible fruit
  
• Requires full sun
  
• Seeds are recalcitrant, and will not form a persistent seed bank