Family: Myrtaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Other species in genus are invasive
- Tolerates many soil types
- Reproduces by seeds
- Seeds dispersed by gravity, possibly wind, and intentionally by people
- Tolerates repeated cutting and pruning
Low Risk Traits:
- No reports of invasiveness or naturalization, but limited evidence of introduction outside native range
- Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
- Non-toxic
- Ornamental
- Not reported to spread vegetatively
- Seeds generally lack means for long-distance dispersal