Family: Sapindaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Thrives in tropical climates
- Shade-tolerant
- Tolerates many soil conditions (and potentially able to exploit many different habitat types)
- Dispersed by birds, frugivorous mammals and humans
- Able to resprout from root suckers
Low Risk Traits:
- No evidence of naturalization or invasiveness to date
- Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
- Non-toxic to humans
- Edible fruit (fleshy aril)
- Dioecious (requires male and female trees to set seed)
- Long time to maturity (possibly 15 years)
- Relatively large seeds unlikely to be inadvertently dispersed
- Seeds recalcitrant and unlikely to form a persistent seed bank