These are some of the larger daphnes, making shrubs that may be a metre or more high. They have finely scented flowers, mostly white to pink, but there are also yellow-flowered species. Most are evergreen, but there are also deciduous ones, and most have showy red or orange fruit, so are beautiful garden plants twice in the year.

Daphne blagayana is a prostrate, trailing daphne, with leathery, evergreen leaves (2-5 cm long) clustered rosette-like at the ends of the stems. Fragrant, creamy white (occasionally pink tinted) flowers are borne in terminal clusters in spring and can be followed by spherical pink or white fruit.