Family: Fabaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
- Thrives in tropical climates
- Naturalized in Puerto Rico, and possibly elsewhere
- Spiny
- Wood may cause dermatitis
- Tolerates many soil types
- Reported to form dense stands in native range
- Reproduces by seeds
- Seed dispersal vectors may be limited (uncertain)
- Able to coppice and resprout after cutting
- Limited ecological information lowers accuracy of risk prediction
Low Risk Traits:
- No reports of negative environmental impacts in introduced range
- Ornamental
- May only thrive in high light environments (i.e. full sun)
- Not reported to spread vegetatively