Cultivation
The fruit and nut was an important food source, to the peoples of arid and semi-arid central Australia, especially for its high vitamin C content. It is commercially grown and marketed as a bush food and is sometimes made into a jam, an enterprise begun in the 1970s. It is well known as an exotic food.
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