Family: Irvingiaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Seeds dispersed by people and large frugivorous mammals
  
• Coppices

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of naturalization or invasiveness to date, but not widely planted outside native range
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Non-toxic
  
• Edible fruit
  
• Medicinal uses
  
• Not known to spread vegetatively
  
• Wild trees reach maturity in 10-15 years
  
• Relatively large fruit and seeds unlikely to be inadvertently dispersed
  
• Will not form a persistent seed bank