Family: Moraceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Naturalized on Oahu, Maui and Hawaii (Hawaiian Islands)
  
• Establishes as an epiphyte on native trees, potentially strangling them and threatening native forest diversity
  
• Other Ficus species are invasive
  
• Shade tolerant
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Able to establish as an epiphyte and strangle host trees
  
• Reproduces by seeds (wasp pollinator present in Hawaiian Islands)
  
• Seeds dispersed by birds and intentionally by people

Low Risk Traits:

• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Provides fodder for livestock (palatable despite reports of toxicity)
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Requires specific wasp pollinator (which is established in the Hawaiian Islands)
  
• Herbicides have provided effective control of other Ficus species, and would probably be effective in controlling Ficus platypoda