Family: Podocarpaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Potentially allelopathic
- Tolerates many soil types
- Juvenile trees are Shade-tolerant
- Moderately flammable and may increase fire risk where grown
- Seeds dispersed by birds and intentionally by people
Low Risk Traits:
- No reports of invasiveness or naturalization, but no evidence of widespread introduction outside native range
- Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
- Palatable to goats, but not preferred browse of cattle, sheep or deer
- Ornamental
- Not reported to spread vegetatively
- Dioecious
- Long time to reproductive maturity (20+ years)
- Does not resprout after fires