Family: Fabaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Thrives in higher elevation tropical climates
- Elevation range exceeds 1000 m
- Naturalized outside native range
- Related Leucaena species have become invasive
- Nitrogen fixing (may modify soil chemistry and facilitate invasions by other weeds)
- Seeds prolifically
- Hybridizes readily with other Leucaena species
- Self-compatible
- Coppices vigorously
- Movement of seeds likely aided by people, wind, and water
Low Risk Traits:
- Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
- Palatable to cattle and other grazing animals and used as a fodder tree at cooler, higher elevation areas
- May be Shade-intolerant
- Although naturalized, and possessing many weedy traits, no information has yet to be documented on invasive impacts of this species
