[4] The bush or tree can reach up to 10 ft.[5] The branches are dark or greyish brown and glabrous (smooth).

2 on page 556 in 1762, by Adriaan van Royen, based on an earlier description by Carl Linnaeus.

[2] The genus name is derived from 'Dais' which means a 'torch' in Greek, and it refers to the resemblance of the stalk and bracts holding the flowers to a torch about to be lit.

[4][8][9] The type specimen is Dais cotinifolia L.[10] In 1807, was originally placed within Vipreculae family, (which all had an involucre which was 4 leaved, many flowered, no perianth, one petalled, funnel-formed, tube filiform, and border 5 cleft.

[3] Within the garden setting, the plants are frost tender, require full sun and well drained soils.