Uses: Highly ornamental for more open locations, wider verges, median strips, parks and reserves. Planted singly as a colourful foreground in mixed plantings or en-mass as a low barrier or informal hedge in low traffic areas due to its prickly foliage. 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.