Family: Anacardiaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Not Native, Naturalized
Native Range:
Brazil; now a widespread weed.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Not listed in Britton & Millspaugh (1920). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 854-857, with illustrations) for thickets and disturbed sites nearly throughout the Archipelago (10-8, 6-5, 1).
Comments:
For more information and images on this invasive species in Florida, visit Florida Invasive Plant Species Mobile Field Guide (
FLIP).
