It is often planted as an ornamental roadside and garden plant. The leaves are used as fodder. The leaves, flower buds, flowers and young pods are eaten as vegetable and the flower buds are often pickled. The plant yields gum and the bark is good as tanning material and for fibre. The wood is used for making agri¬cultural implements and for fuel. The bark, root and flowers are also reputed to have medicinal properties.
Since all of these are wild/native plants some nurseries may not carry some of them as they prefer imported plants, that, either do not perform well without frequent irrigation, or become invasive and pose a risk to our environment with their uncontrollable spread. Learn more about this on our blog.
The only way to promote some of these species is by demanding them from nurseries and sharing seeds/saplings to plant growers in the community. Facebook has many groups that are a great place for doing so (you can also ask around for hard to find native plants!).