Family: Solanaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Grows in tropical climates
  
• Widely introduced and naturalized throughout the Pacific
  
• Reported as a weed of disturbed areas (impacts generally unspecified)
  
• Other Solanum species have become invasive
  
• Forms with prickles exist
  
• Alternate host of fruit flies in the genus Bactrocera
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Reproduces by seed
  
• Self-fertile
  
• Able to reach maturity in <1 growing season
  
• Seeds dispersed by birds and intentionally by people

Low Risk Traits:

• Despite reports of weediness, negative impacts are not documented
  
• Unarmed forms exist
  
• Fruits edible and used medicinally
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Herbicides are effective at controlling other weedy Solanum species