Family: Apocynaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Other Thevetia species are invasive
  
• Unpalatable to animals
  
• Poisonous to animals and humans
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• Seeds dispersed by animals and intentionally by people

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of invasiveness or naturalization
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Ornamental
  
• Self-pollination is absent
  
• Requires specialized pollinators (birds and possibly moths)
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Fruit and seeds relatively large and unlikely to be accidentally dispersed