Family: Bignoniaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Broad elevation range in the tropics
- Other Jacaranda species are regarded as invasive
- Tolerates many soil types (not substrate limited)
- Reproduces by seeds
- Fast growth rate (but time to reproductive maturity unknown)
- Seeds dispersed by wind, by ants, and through intentional cultivation
- Able to coppice and grow back repeatedly following cutting
Low Risk Traits:
- No reports of naturalization or invasiveness, but unclear how widespread cultivation is outside native range
- Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
- Non-toxic
- A light-demanding pioneer tree (dense shade may inhibit ability to spread)
- Self-incompatible (requires outcrossing for seed set)
- Not reported to spread vegetatively
- Seeds of are nondormant and do not form a persistent seed bank in the soil