Family: Euphorbiaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Naturalized in Hawaiian Islands and other locations
  
• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Disturbance weed
  
• Potentially toxic under certain conditions
  
• Tolerates many soil conditions (and potentially able to exploit many different habitat types)
  
• Can hybridize with M. esculenta (Cassava)
  
• Apomictic
  
• Ballistic seed dispersal
  
• Seeds also ant-dispersed
  
• Seeds may remain dormant and form a seed bank

Low Risk Traits:

• Source of rubber
  
• Unarmed
  
• Fodder tree (although potentially toxic under certain conditions)
  
• No evidence of vegetative spread
  
• Ballistic seed dispersal may limit spread to vicinity of parent trees