Family: Malvaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Sometimes escapes cultivation
  
• May have allelopathic properties
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• Seeds dispersed by large animals and intentionally by people
  
• Able to coppice and resprout after cutting

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of invasiveness or naturalization (although escapes cultivation)
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Edible fruit and seeds
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Reaches maturity in 5+ years
  
• Fruit and seeds relatively large and unlikely to be inadvertently dispersed
  
• Seeds may be recalcitrant and unlikely to form a persistent seed bank