Family: Celastraceae

High Risk Traits:

• Highly suited to tropical/subtropical climates
  
• Grows in multiple habitat types (moist lowland and hill forests)
  
• Tolerates full sun to partial shade
  
• Tolerates sandy to clayey soils
  
• Intentionally planted as an ornamental
  
• Produces fleshy fruits adapted for bird dispersal
  
• Seeds survive gut passage
  
• Produces viable seed

Low Risk Traits:

• Not naturalized elsewhere
  
• Not a garden, agricultural, or environmental weed
  
• No spines, thorns, or burrs
  
• No evidence of toxicity, allelopathy, or parasitism
  
• Roots are non-aggressive