Language                                                   Name

Noongar-Wudjari (W8):                            Maal

Noongar-Nyoongar/Baaduk (W41):

Common name:                                         Red Five Corner

Scientific name:                                         Styphelia sp.

Group name for Plants

Wudjari:                                                       Dek

Nyoongar/Baaduk:                                    Dek

Group name for Flowers

Wudjari:                                                        Djet

Nyoongar/Baaduk:                                     Djet

Looks like:
Wudjari: Little prickly bush. Fruit looks like a mini watermelon. There are a couple of plants with this name - two bushes and one that creeps along the ground like grass.They are very spikey. The fruit for ground plant is under the foliage - you have to use a stick to lift the foliage because it is very spikey. Bush plants have red to pink flowers. Ground plants have white flowers.
 

Feels like:
Wudjari: Big nut in the middle of it and the flesh around the nut. Soft skin - like a plum.
 

Smells like:
Wudjari: Ripe fruit has a very sweet smell - slight musky smell.
 

Tastes like:
Wudjari: Sweet - better than fairy floss.

Food:
Wudjari: Edible part is fruit/berries. Round fruit like mini watermelons. Fruit is stone hard until ripe.  Ripe fruits are soft. Ripe fruit tastes like fairy floss - taste better than bush tomato. Delicacy. Eaten as a fruit. Don't pick the small ones - wait for them to swell up a little bit. It is a Noongar sense to know when it is ready.
 

Medicine:
 

Other Uses:
 

Birak
 

Boonaroo
 

Djeran
 

Mookaroo
 

Djilba
Wudjari: Fruit ready to eat in Spring.
 

Kambarang
 

Wudjari: Sandy areas. Many found in the Stirling Ranges.

Wudjari: Bobtails like to be under the ground plants so have to be careful and lift the plant with a stick.

Wudjari: Don't touch it or damage the plant when getting the fruit because it takes a long time to grow. We lift the plant off the ground with a stick and get the berries from the lower branches or the ground under the plant.