Uses: Use as a barrier, wind-break, informal hedge or screen for low traffic areas in parks and reserves due to its prickly foliage. Requires well-drained soils. Tree can sucker.
Attracts birds, native butterflies and insects, caterpillar food plant.
Good habitat plant for small animals.
Important bush food plant - seeds ground for flour.
 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.

:LE: Lake Eyre   
:NU: Nullarbor   
:GT: Gairdner-Torrens   
:FR: Flinders Rangers  
:EA: Eastern   
:EP: Eyre Peninsula
:NL: Northern Lofty
:MU: Murray
:YP: Yorke Peninsula
:SL: Southern Lofty
 
For detail on these regions refer to the user guide.