Family: Apocynaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Grows in tropical climates
  
• Widely cultivated outside native range
  
• Climbing vine (can smother other plants)
  
• Produces viable seeds
  
• Dispersed intentionally by people
  
• Seeds adapted for wind dispersal

Low Risk Traits:

• Unarmed (no spines/thorns)
  
• Not toxic (leaves and flowers are eaten)
  
• Not reported as a weed (no naturalization evidence)
  
• Requires full sun (not shade tolerant)
  
• Requires specialist pollinators (moths)
  
• Low seed production in introduced areas