Family: Combretaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Produces thorns/spines.
  
• Unpalatable to grazers (high tannins).
  
• Resprouts after damage (suckers).
  
• Tolerates wide soil types, salinity, and drought.

Low Risk Traits:

• Not naturalized, or weedy.
  
• No allelopathy, parasitism, or toxicity.
  
• Requires full sun (not shade tolerant).
  
• Slow-growing; late reproductive maturity (>4 years).
  
• Low seed production; no persistent seed bank.
  
• No vegetative spread or unintentional dispersal.