Family: Moraceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Naturalized on Molokai, Maui, Hawaii and Midway Island (Hawaiian Islands), New Zealand, and elsewhere
  
• An environmental weed in the Hawaiian Islands, establishing on and eventually strangling native forest trees
  
• Other Ficus species are invasive
  
• Host of other pests and pathogens
  
• May be a skin irritant
  
• Shade tolerant
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Starts out as an epiphyte and strangles host trees
  
• Reproduces by seeds (specific pollinator present in the Hawaiian Islands)
  
• Probably self-fertile
  
• Seeds dispersed by birds and intentionally cultivated by people
  
• Able to coppice after cutting

Low Risk Traits:

• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Provides fodder for livestock
  
• Ornamental value
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Requires a specialized pollinator wasp (which was introduced into the Hawaiian Islands)
  
• Herbicides may provide effective control