Family: Lauraceae

High Risk Traits:

• Broad climate suitability
  
• Able to grow in tropical and subtropical climates
  
• Naturalized (although native range not known)
  
• Controlled as a weed in New Zealand
  
• Highly flammable foliage may increase fire risk
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Reproduces by seeds and root suckers
  
• Seeds dispersed by birds and intentionally by people
  
• Able to resprout after cutting, heavy pruning or fire

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of naturalization in the Hawaiian Islands to date
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Provides fodder for livestock
  
• Ornamental and culinary uses
  
• Dioecious
  
• Recalcitrant seeds rapidly lose viability