Stiff, erect shrub to 2-3 m tall. Leaves linear, to about 1 cm long, crowded, aromatic. Flowers 7-8 in a bell-like head; spring. Outer bracts green, inner bracts long, white and pointed with purplish red tips.

There is a number of species grown for the pendulous bell-like flower heads. These species can be distinguished by the colour and shape of the large outside bracts. The following WA species are listed: D. collina C.A. Gardner, Yellow Mountain Bell, which has flower heads with large greenish yellow bracts; D. leiostyla (Turcz.) Domin, with greenish outer bracts and deep pink or red inner bracts; D. macrostegia (Turcz.) Benth., Mondurup Bell, with rounded bracts that are red with white blotches or rarely all red; D. oxylepis (Turcz.) Marchant &Keighery, with pointed bracts that are red with a little white; and D. squarrosa (Turcz.) Domin, Pink Mountain Bell, from the Stirling Ranges of WA, with pink flowers with fringed bracts.

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Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Myrtaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.