Family: Combretaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Thrives in tropical climates
- Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating some environmental versatility
- Naturalized in Florida, Africa, Mauritius and possibly elsewhere
- Other Terminalia species have become invasive
- Possibly allelopathic
- Adult trees shade tolerant
- Tolerates many soil types
- Can reproduce vegetatively by root suckers and stumps
- Viable seeds dispersed by animals (e.g. flying foxes), water and intentionally by people
- May form a persistent seed bank (unknown from field conditions)
- Able to coppice and resprout after cutting
Low Risk Traits:
- Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
- Fodder tree (palatable to grazing animals)
- Used to raise tassar silkworms
- Non-toxic
- Ornamental
- Seedlings are shade-intolerant
- Mostly self-incompatible (although limited self-pollination has been documented to occur)
- Reaches maturity in 6-7 years