Family: Myrtaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Broad environmental tolerance
  
• Naturalized outside native range (CA, FL)
  
• Repeated human introductions
  
• Prolific seed production
  
• Seeds wind- and potentially water-dispersed
  
• Hybridizes readily
  
• Tolerates pruning/fire; resprouts easily
  
• Host for significant rust pathogen (Austropuccinia psidii)

Low Risk Traits:

• Not weedy
  
• Non-toxic to animals/humans
  
• No spines, thorns, or burrs
  
• Not allelopathic
  
• Not a fire hazard
  
• No persistent soil seed bank
  
• Not spread via produce, animals, or gut passage