Family: Malvaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives, and could potentially spread, in regions with tropical climates
  
• Potential allelopathic properties
  
• Shade tolerant
  
• Reproduces by seeds (facilitating possible naturalization)
  
• Reaches reproductive maturity in 3 years
  
• Seeds dispersed by gravity, frugivorous mammals and through intentional cultivation
  
• Tolerates sever pruning

Low Risk Traits:

• Despite widespread cultivation, no confirmed reports of naturalization or invasiveness outside native range
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Heavy shade may inhibit spread
  
• Largely self-incompatible
  
• Although bee-pollinated, pollinator limitations may reduce seed set
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Large fruit and seeds relatively large and unlikely to be accidentally dispersed
  
• Seeds recalcitrant and unlikely to form a persistent seed bank