diff --git a/changelog/534.bugfix.rst b/changelog/534.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cbb7802ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/534.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Dynamically copy docstring and function signature from `NDCube.plotter.plot()` to `NDCube.plot()`.
diff --git a/ndcube/tests/test_ndcube.py b/ndcube/tests/test_ndcube.py
index 4efa8dd0c..a80f6b011 100644
--- a/ndcube/tests/test_ndcube.py
+++ b/ndcube/tests/test_ndcube.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from inspect import signature
 from textwrap import dedent
 
 import astropy.units as u
@@ -850,3 +851,10 @@ def test_reproject_exact_incompatible_wcs(ndcube_4d_ln_l_t_lt, wcs_4d_lt_t_l_ln,
     with pytest.raises(ValueError):
         _ = ndcube_4d_ln_l_t_lt.reproject_to(wcs_4d_lt_t_l_ln, algorithm='exact',
                                              shape_out=(5, 10, 12, 8))
+
+
+def test_plot_docstring():
+    cube = NDCube([], astropy.wcs.WCS())
+
+    assert cube.plot.__doc__ == cube.plotter.plot.__doc__
+    assert signature(cube.plot) == signature(cube.plotter.plot)
diff --git a/ndcube/visualization/descriptor.py b/ndcube/visualization/descriptor.py
index f45a77281..b4e58ce0d 100644
--- a/ndcube/visualization/descriptor.py
+++ b/ndcube/visualization/descriptor.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import functools
+
 MISSING_MATPLOTLIB_ERROR_MSG = ("Matplotlib can not be imported, so the default plotting "
                                 "functionality is disabled. Please install matplotlib.")
 
@@ -18,30 +20,43 @@ def __set_name__(self, owner, name):
         # attribute name is the name of the attribute on the parent class where
         # the data is stored.
         self._attribute_name = f"_{name}"
+        plotter = self._resolve_default_type(raise_error=False)
+        if plotter is not None and hasattr(plotter, "plot"):
+            functools.update_wrapper(owner.plot, plotter.plot)
 
-    def __get__(self, obj, objtype=None):
-        if obj is None:
-            return
-
-        if getattr(obj, self._attribute_name, None) is None:
-
-            # We special case the default MatplotlibPlotter so that we can
-            # delay the import of matplotlib until the plotter is first
-            # accessed.
+    def _resolve_default_type(self, raise_error=True):
+        # We special case the default MatplotlibPlotter so that we can
+        # delay the import of matplotlib until the plotter is first
+        # accessed.
+        if self._default_type in ("mpl_plotter", "mpl_sequence_plotter"):
             try:
                 if self._default_type == "mpl_plotter":
                     from ndcube.visualization.mpl_plotter import MatplotlibPlotter
-                    self.__set__(obj, MatplotlibPlotter)
+                    return MatplotlibPlotter
                 elif self._default_type == "mpl_sequence_plotter":
                     from ndcube.visualization.mpl_sequence_plotter import MatplotlibSequencePlotter
-                    self.__set__(obj, MatplotlibSequencePlotter)
-                elif self._default_type is not None:
-                    self.__set__(obj, self._default_type)
-                else:
-                    # If we have no default type then just return None
-                    return
+                    return MatplotlibSequencePlotter
             except ImportError as e:
-                raise ImportError(MISSING_MATPLOTLIB_ERROR_MSG) from e
+                if raise_error:
+                    raise ImportError(MISSING_MATPLOTLIB_ERROR_MSG) from e
+
+        elif self._default_type is not None:
+            return self._default_type
+
+        # If we have no default type then just return None
+        else:
+            return
+
+    def __get__(self, obj, objtype=None):
+        if obj is None:
+            return
+
+        if getattr(obj, self._attribute_name, None) is None:
+            plotter_type = self._resolve_default_type()
+            if plotter_type is None:
+                return
+
+            self.__set__(obj, plotter_type)
 
         return getattr(obj, self._attribute_name)
 
@@ -49,4 +64,14 @@ def __set__(self, obj, value):
         if not isinstance(value, type):
             raise TypeError(
                 "Plotter attribute can only be set with an uninitialised plotter object.")
+
         setattr(obj, self._attribute_name, value(obj))
+        # here obj is the ndcube object and value is the plotter type
+        # Get the instantiated plotter we just assigned to the ndcube
+        plotter = getattr(obj, self._attribute_name)
+        # If the plotter has a plot object then update the signature and
+        # docstring of the cubes `plot()` method to match
+        # Docstrings of methods aren't writeable so we copy to the underlying
+        # function object instead
+        if hasattr(plotter, "plot"):
+            functools.update_wrapper(obj.plot.__func__, plotter.plot.__func__)