Family: Salicaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m
  
• Cultivation escape in New Zealand
  
• Spiny
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Can from thickets
  
• Spreads vegetatively by suckering
  
• Seeds spread by mammals (possibly pigs in Hawaiian Islands)
  
• Can resprout from roots if cut or damaged

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of invasiveness or negative impacts outside native range
  
• Medicinal and ornamental uses, and used as a barrier plant
  
• Seeds not documented to be bird-dispersed