Family: Myrtaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Thrives in tropical climates (and could potentially spread in Hawaiian Islands)
  
• Reported as a weed of rice crops in Indonesia (but impacts unknown)
  
• Other Syzygium (and Eugenia) species are invasive
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Reproduces by bird-dispersed seeds
  
• Reaches maturity in 3 years
  
• Able to coppice and resprout after cutting

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of invasiveness or naturalization, but no evidence of widespread introduction outside native range
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Non-toxic
  
• Valued as a spice, and used medicinally and for timber
  
• Recalcitrant seeds lose viability rapidly (will not form a persistent seed bank)