Family: Magnoliaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Escapes cultivation outside natural range in North America
  
• On Delaware invasive plant watch list (No specifics provided)
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Seeds dispersed by birds and intentionally by people
  
• Self-compatible
  
• Able to coppice and resprout after cutting
  
• Missing ecological information could change the assessment prediction

Low Risk Traits:

• May be able to naturalize only in higher, cooler elevations in tropical islands
  
• No negative impacts documented
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Moderately palatable to browsing and grazing animals
  
• Non-toxic
  
• Ornamental
  
• Requires beetle for effective pollination
  
• Does not spread vegetatively