Uses: Can be used as a screen, informal or formal hedge for wider verges, parks and reserves.
Fast growing and responds well to pruning. Useful for poorly drained sites and for regeneration along creeks and rivers. Attracts nectar eating birds and butterflies. Dense copses are excellent refuges for native birds.
Cultural use: Wood and bark was used by indigenous peoples to make implements, weapons, tools and canoes.
Note: This species is classified schedule 1, Regulation 24.2 under the Sewerage Act and may be planted in any street or road in any drainage area provided they are not planted closer than two metres to any sewer main or connection.

This plant is indigenous to the following botanical regions of South Australia.

:MU: Murray
:SL: Southern Lofty
:KI: Kangaroo Island
:SE: South Eastern
 
For detail on these regions refer to the user guide.