Family: Boraginaceae

Geiger tree is a shrubby plant growing up to 20 feet tall with a 15-foot spread. It produces a dense crown, rounded in shape. It is wind tolerant and moderately tolerant of salt spray. Red-Orange flowers bloom throughout most of the year. Unobtrusive roots won’t damage structures and roads. Native to the American tropics, it thrives in Hawai’i.

Plant Uses:

• Hedge
• Ornamental
• Privacy / screening
• Specimen
• Windbreak

Plant Dangers:

• No dangers

High Risk Traits:

• Suited to tropical/subtropical climates
  
• Widely introduced through cultivation
  
• Other Cordia species are weeds
  
• Tolerates varied and saline soils
  
• Produces viable seeds

Low Risk Traits:

• Not toxic, spiny, or allelopathic
  
• Does not climb or form thickets
  
• Low seed production
  
• No persistent seed bank
  
• Not wind-dispersed