Family: Apocynaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Able to grow in subtropical climates
  
• Leaves with spine-like points
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Reproduces by seed
  
• Seeds wind-dispersed
  
• May be able to spread vegetatively
  
• Able to coppice and resprout after cutting
  
• Limited ecological information may reduce accuracy of risk prediction

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of invasiveness or naturalization, but minimal evidence of widespread introduction outside native range
  
• Ornamental