Family: Musaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Broad climate suitability (tropical, subtropical, steppe, 0–2400 m)
  
• Repeated introductions outside native range
  
• Host for many pests & pathogens (135+ fungi, viruses, insects)
  
• Shade tolerant
  
• Wide soil tolerance (sand, loam, clay; pH 5.5–7.0)
  
• Geophyte (spreads via corms/suckers)
  
• Hybridizes naturally with Musa balbisiana
  
• Generates in ~1 year
  
• Resprouts after mutilation or frost

Low Risk Traits:

• Requires specialist bat pollinators
  
• Not naturalized outside native range
  
• Not weedy
  
• No spines, thorns, or burrs
  
• Not allelopathic, parasitic, or toxic
  
• No fire hazard
  
• Cultivated forms are seedless & sterile
  
• No seed dispersal (wind, water, animals, gut passage)