Family: Ebenaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Broad climate suitability
  
• Able to grow in subtropical and tropical climates
  
• Reported as naturalized in Japan (but no evidence from the Hawaiian Islands)
  
• Unconfirmed reports of weediness
  
• Other Diospyros species are invasive
  
• Potentially allelopathic
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Can reproduce by seeds and vegetatively by suckers
  
• Some cultivars may produce fruit after 2 years
  
• Seeds, if produced, may be dispersed by frugivorous mammals, birds, seed caching rodents, and through intentional cultivation
  
• Tolerates pruning (may resprout if cut)

Low Risk Traits:

• A domesticated tree with a long history of cultivation and no confirmed reports of negative impacts where grown
  
• Cultivated in the Hawaiian Islands with no evidence of naturalization or invasiveness
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Foliage palatable to browsing animals
  
• Non-toxic
  
• Grows in full sun and high light environments (dense shade may inhibit spread)
  
• Dioecious
  
• Parthenocarpic trees may produce seedless fruit
  
• Seeds, when produced, are relatively large and unlikely to be dispersed long distances by animals or accidentally