Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Grows in tropical climates
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• N-fixing (may alter soil chemistry)
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• Seeds dispersed by birds, fruit-eating mammals and intentionally by people
  
• Reaches maturity in 2+ years (fast growth rate)
  
• Able to coppice and resprout after cutting

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of invasiveness or naturalization, but native range unclear due to cultivation
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Provides fodder for livestock
  
• Ornamental
  
• Requires full sun
  
• Self-Incompatible
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Seeds lose viability rapidly; unlikely to form a persistent seed bank