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