Language                                                  Name

Noongar-Wudjari (W8):                           Maalyaan Djinda

Noongar-Nyoongar/Baaduk (W41):

Common name:                                        Posy Starflower

Scientific name:                                        Calytrix leschenaultii

Group name for Plants

Wudjari:                                                      Dek

Nyoongar/Baaduk:                                   Dek

Group name for Flowers

Wudjari:                                                       Djet

Nyoongar/Baaduk:                                    Djet

Wudjari:          Maalyaan = the evening star, the first star in the sky.
                         Djinda = general word for star.

Looks like:
Wudjari: Purple star shaped flower petals with a yellow center.
 

Feels like:
 

Smells like:
Wudjari: Sweet smell.
 

Tastes like:
 

Food:
 

Medicine:
 

Other Uses:
Wudjari: According to Gail Yorkshire: "They would call these flowers 'Heavenly Stars' and count one out for every child in the mission".  They are beautiful and make our spaces more beautiful. We picked them and put them through our hair - it was a happy plant. Made us children so happy.  There was another, a vine, that had gorgeous little flowers.

Wudjari: Everywhere/scrubby areas.

Wudjari: As children, being in the home (mission), we would see these flowers on the side of the road, near where the Noongar people used to live, we called these stars. We would put them on our dress. It took us away from the tortures of the mission life. It was a happy plant and made us children happy. To us it was a healing plant - to look at it we would think of the stars in the heavens, and it would take us away from the tortures, so many tortures that we suffered in the mission.

Birak
 

Boonaroo
 

Djeran
 

Mookaroo
Wudjari: Flowers at the end of Winter.
 

Djilba
Wudjari: Normally one of the first flowers to come out in the Spring.
 

Kambarang