Family: Apocynaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Climbing, and potentially smothering, growth habit
  
• Reproduces by seed
  
• Seeds dispersed by mammals and intentionally by people
  
• Seeds dispersed by birds and intentionally by people
  
• Limited ecological information reduces accuracy of risk prediction

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of invasiveness or naturalization, but no evidence of widespread introduction outside native range
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Edible fruit
  
• Medicinal uses
  
• Fruit relatively large and unlikely to be accidentally dispersed