Family: Apocynaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Able to grow in regions with tropical climates
- Spiny
- Reproduces by wind-dispersed seeds
- May be able to produce interspecific and intergeneric hybrids
- Limited ecological information may reduce accuracy of risk prediction
Low Risk Traits:
- No reports of invasiveness or naturalization, but introduction outside native range appears to be limited
- Valuable medicinal plant
- Susceptibility to bacterial and fungal rot, mites and mite transmitted diseases may limit ability to escape and spread in the Hawaiian Islands
- Possibly self-incompatible
- Not reported to spread vegetatively