Family: Araliaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Leaves used as a fish poison (potentially toxic to other animals and people)
  
• Produces numerous bird-dispersed seeds
  
• Ability to resprout from cut or damaged trunks

Low Risk Traits:

• No evidence of naturalization or records of invasiveness elsewhere were found
  
• Grows only in lower elevation, tropical climates
  
• Trees are dioecious, and presumably not self-fertile
  
• Landscaping and ornamental value