Family: Cactaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Produces spines/thorns
  
• Tropical climate match
  
• Introduced repeatedly outside native range
  
• Tolerates wide soil range
  
• Produces viable seed
  
• Intentionally spread by people
  
• Bird-dispersed seeds
  
• Seeds survive gut passage
  
• Tolerates hard pruning

Low Risk Traits:

• Not naturalized elsewhere
  
• Not a weed (garden, agricultural, or environmental)
  
• Not allelopathic or parasitic
  
• No toxicity to animals or humans
  
• No fire hazard
  
• Not shade tolerant
  
• No natural hybrids
  
• Self-sterile (needs cross-pollination)
  
• Not wind or water dispersed
  
• Low seed production