Language                               Name

Kriol:                                       Bun.gurri

Marra:                                    Gulubirndama; Bun.gurri

Ritharrŋu/ Wägilak:              Ḏangapa'

Ngandi:                                  Gu-dhan.gapbah; Gu-bololo

Wubuy:                                   Wiḻwag

Ngalakgan:                            Bololo

Alawa:                                    Gulubindama

Rembarrnga:                         Gulubindamba

English:                                  Geebung

Scientific name:                   Persoonia falcata

Group name for plants:       Trees

The bark shavings can be used for eye wash. Leaves can be used as a medicine for sore throat, chest and diarrhoea.

'Fruit eaten, yellow when ripe. A tree in stony country.'

     - Alawa Dictionary (p. 32)

Flowering occurs between June – October and the tree bears fruit between October – January.
The fruits becomes edible when it turns yellow – black.

A woody shrub growing up to 8m tall in an open woodlands. The leaves are long and thin.