Family: Boraginaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Grows in tropical climates
  
• Documented as a weed, but unable to corroborate or identify impacts
  
• Other Cordia species have become invasive
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• Seeds dispersed by frugivorous birds and mammals
  
• Seeds able to be stored for extended periods; May form a persistent seed bank
  
• Able to coppice and resprout after cutting
  
• Limited ecological information reduces accuracy of risk prediction

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of naturalization, but no evidence of widespread introduction outside native range
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Provides fodder for livestock
  
• Edible fruit
  
• Dioecious
  
• Reaches maturity in ca. 7 years
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively