Extensively planted in warmer areas in parks, streets and private gardens. They tolerate full exposure to sun but benefit from extra water during dry periods. They are hardy in southern areas of Australia but are slow growing and frost sensitive while young.
The name bangalow is Aboriginal for 'water carrying basket'. The crownshaft can be fashioned, with a few deft folds and tucks, into a watertight vessel, the petiole used as the handle. Surveyors in the early part of European settlement used one chain lengths of the stems as standard measures.
In Southern Brazil, it has become an invasive species, profiting from the local extinction of the endangered native palm Euterpe edulis. In New Zealand there is concern that it could invade native forests, since it has the same ecological requirements as the native Nikau Palm