Dais cotinifolia, the pompon tree, is a South African indigenous evergreen tree in the Thymelaeaceae family. It is one of the best known and well-loved indigenous trees, tough enough to be used as a street tree and small enough to fit into most gardens. When in flower at Christmas it looks like a giant candy floss, as the tree transforms into a cloud of soft pink balls. Its natural home is the eastern part of South Africa where it grows on the margins of forests, wooded hill slopes and in stony kloofs. This is a wonderful tree for the garden, fast growing, fairly drought resistant once established and frost hardy.