Family: Fabaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Naturalized several locations worldwide
- Serious weed of rangelands and the environment
- Possessed thorns
- Tolerates many soil conditions (and potentially able to exploit many different habitat types)
- Thicket-forming
- Hybridizes with other Prosopis species
- Reaches maturity in 3 years or more
- Pods and seeds eaten and dispersed by animals (livestock)
- Pods and seeds moved by water
- Forms a persistent seed bank
- Resprouts vigorously after damage, including cutting and fires
Low Risk Traits:
- Fodder tree for livestock
- Mostly Shade-intolerant
- Self-incompatible
- Timber tree
