A. cambagei has a dark, close grained, heavy timber with fibres interlocked and cross grained. It can be useful for turning but the limited size and supply preclude any large scale use of this tree. The timber makes good fuel.

Only two mistletoes have been recorded on A. cambagei in South Australia. Amyema quandang, grey mistletoe is the more common, with a few records of the widely spread Amyema preissii, wire-leaved mistletoe.

"Gidya trees might be all right to look at, old man, though to smell them on a damp morning would spoil anyones breakfast; but gidya, after a camel has eaten it, and the beast breathed on you---oh Hell" Mountford (1948).

Hall (1975) deals with A. cambagei as No. 1 in a limited series on Australian Acacias. The geographical distribution, ecology, botanical features and utilisation are covered but no special bibliography is provided.