Family: Apocynaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Thrives in tropical climates
- Climbing growth habit
- Reproduces by seeds
- Seeds dispersed by mammals, possibly 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
- Not reported to spread vegetatively
- Fruit relatively large and unlikely to be accidentally dispersed