Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Naturalized in Africa and Brazil (outside natural range)
  
• Possibly having detrimental environmental impacts in Brazil where naturalized outside native range
  
• Other Mimosa species are invasive weeds
  
• Spiny
  
• Seedlings are Shade-tolerant
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• N-fixing (may alter soil chemistry)
  
• Reproduces by seeds and vegetatively by root suckering
  
• Reaches maturity in 2 years (rapid growth rate)
  
• Seeds dispersed by gravity and intentionally by people
  
• Seeds may persist for more than one year
  
• Able to coppice and resprout after cutting

Low Risk Traits:

• Provides fodder for livestock
  
• Useful as a timber plant