Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Naturalized in Mauritius and perhaps elsewhere
  
• Other Caesalpinia species have become invasive
  
• Low palatability
  
• Reportedly toxic to animals
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Forms pure stands in native range
  
• Seeds dispersed by gravity, possibly birds and animals and intentionally by people
  
• Seeds with physical dormancy, and able to be stored for extended periods; May form a persistent seed bank
  
• Able to coppice and resprout after cutting

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of detrimental impacts in natural or managed ecosystems
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Source of tannins
  
• Ornamental
  
• Self-incompatible
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Reaches maturity after 5-7 years
  
• Indehiscent pods make inadvertent seed dispersal unlikely