Uses: For higher rainfall areas of the adelaide plains and hills in wider verges, median strips, parks and reserves. Planted singly as a background in mixed plantings or en-mass as a barrier, screen or formal hedge. Vivid orange coloured new growth. Requires well-drained soils.
Responds to heavy pruning.
Attracts birds for food source and habitat.
Note: Although this species is not classified under the Sewerage Act, it is recommended that it not be planted closer than two metres to any sewer main or connection.