Uses: Ornamental or screening plant and useful for controlling foot traffic due to its prickly foliage..
Pink and red flowering varieties, unusual holly like leaves.
Requires well-drained soils. Tolerant to pruning. Attracts nectar eating birds and insects for food and habitat.
Caution: Can be a skin irritant.
Note: This species is provisionally classified schedule 1, Regulation 24.2 under the Sewerage Act. Written approval is required prior to planting in streets or roads. It should not be planted closer than two metres to any sewer main or connection.