Family: Moraceae

High Risk Traits:

• Grows in tropical climates
  
• Naturalized or escaped in Florida
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Grows in almost pure stands in parts of its native range. Uncertain in natural or remnants of prehistoric cultivation
  
• Seeds dispersed by primates, bats, birds, and rodents
  
• Able to coppice and tolerates heavy pruning

Low Risk Traits:

• Despite naturalization in Florida, there are no reports of negative impacts of this tree there or anywhere else where it grows
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Important fodder and forage plant for cattle and other animals
  
• Edible pulp and seeds
  
• Ornamental and timber tree
  
• Seeds recalcitrant and tree will not form a long-lived seed bank