Shrub to 5 m tall, hairy. Stems erect, much-branched. Leaves linear, to 1.5 cm long, to 2 mm wide, margins tightly curved under, upper surface green and rough, lower surface white-woolly, sessile. Capitula in dense terminal corymbs, to 3 mm across, on stalks; late winter to spring. Involucral bracts broad, lamina usually opaque white, sometimes pinkish. Florets 20-22, all bisexual. [Helichrysum diosmifolium (Vent.) Sweet]
Eastern Australia
Source: (2002). Dahlia. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Ozothamnus diosmifolius 'Cook's Snow White'
Compact plant with rounded buds in flat-topped heads 6-9 cm wide.
Plant Varieties Journal 6(4): 43.
Ozothamnus diosmifolius 'Cook's Tall Pink'
Tall plant with oval to pointed pink buds, white at the base, in open flat-topped heads.
Plant Varieties Journal 6(4): 45.
Ozothamnus diosmifolius 'Redlands Sandra'
Tall plant with creamy pointed buds in heads 6-8 cm wide.