[2] It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental.

[4] Its first description was written by Adrian Hardy Haworth, in Miscellanea naturalia, 1803, p. 189, with the name of Cacalia tomentosa.

Haworth stated that he had received the plant, introduced eight years before, from the Stockwell Botanical Garden of his friend Benjamin Robertson.

A plucked stem or leaf can be stuck into warm, not-too-dry earth, where it will root without special attention.

[6] Like in nature, Caputia tomentosa needs well-drained sandy loams, rare water and full sun.