Family: Boraginaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Broad climate suitability and environmentally versatile
  
• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Naturalized on Oahu, and Hawaii (Hawaiian Islands), Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, the Galapagos, and possibly elsewhere
  
• Environmental weed in Vanuatu (and possibly elsewhere), competing with native vegetation
  
• Other Cordia species have become invasive
  
• Possibly unpalatable
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Able to form pure stands
  
• Reproduces by seeds and possibly from lateral roots
  
• Able to reach maturity in three years (but typically in 5+ years)
  
• Seeds dispersed by wind, secondarily by water and intentionally by people
  
• Prolific seed production
  
• Able to coppice and resprout after cutting

Low Risk Traits:

• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Non-toxic
  
• Reported to be shade-intolerant (but reports from Oahu suggest plants are able to establish in some shaded sites)
  
• Self-incompatible (but some sources suggest some selfing may occur)
  
• Seeds rapidly lose viability under natural conditions, and are not known to form a persistent seed bank