Family: Araceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• All parts of plant are poisonous, and sap can be a skin irritant
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Seeds potentially bird-dispersed
  
• Can resprout if cut to base

Low Risk Traits:

• No confirmed reports of naturalization or invasiveness to date
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Valued as an ornamental
  
• Plants functionally self-incompatible
  
• Requires specialized beetle pollinators
  
• Reaches maturity after 15+ years
  
• Not likely to form a persistent seed bank
  
• Herbicides effectively control this plant