Language                                                  Name

Noongar-Wudjari (W8):                 

Noongar-Nyoongar/Baaduk (W41):      Kamak 

Common name:                                        Australian Bluebell, Native Bluebell 

Scientific name:                                        Billardiera heterophylla

Group name for Plants

Wudjari:                                                       Dek

Nyoongar/Baaduk:                                    Dek

Group name for Flowers

Wudjari:                                                       Djet

Nyoongar/Baaduk:                                    Djet

Looks like: 
Nyoongar: Blue bell flower. Small oblong fruit turns transparent purpley-brown and pink when ripe. Seeds are soft when they are ripe. 

Feels like: 
Nyoongar: The ripe fruits have a squishy, jelly-like consistency.

Tastes like: 
Nyoongar: Fruit tastes like apricot jam or a different form of dried apricot. Tastes peachy, maybe similar to strawberry jam. Don't chew seeds, but if you do chew them they taste like soap.

Food: 
Nyoongar: Eat the fruit. You can tell they are ripe when the outside is a little bit transparent, and they fall easily in your hand. Need to suck the seeds not chew them, if you chew them they taste like soap. Swallow the seed by pushing the fruit up to the roof of your mouth and sucking it, then spitting out the seeds, or swallowing them whole. The fruits are good for you – a different form of vitamin C. Don't eat them when they're green. The best ones to eat are the ones on the ground. 

Medicine:

Other uses: 
Nyoongar: The vines can be used to make baskets/bowls. You weave them together and let the leaves fall off by themselves – but the vines stay there and make a very effective basket.

Nyoongar: Everywhere on the south coast around Esperance.

Nyoongar: Very pretty, unusual - clumpy and twisty with beautiful little bluebell flowers.

Nyoongar: Kambarang and Birak is when it fruits and flowers.

Birak
Nyoongar: Fruits and flowers.
 

Boonaroo
 

Djeran
 

Mookaroo
 

Djilba
 

Kambarang
Nyoongar: Starts to fruit and flower.

Nyoongar: They are integral to the ecological system of Australia, and Taalyaraak Country.

Nyoongar: Totemic plant. Food source. Found around many camping spots because it was purposely cultivated.

Nyoongar: Birds, bobtails and kaader (goannas) love to eat this fruit.

Nyoongar: All plants and animals have a connection to the outer world.

Nyoongar: Let them grow - it adopts the trees around it to climb and then produce their fruit. It is essential to preserve these plants rather than clear land, because they only grow in certain areas.