Language                                   Name

Noongar-Wudjari                       Noordjit

Common name:                        

Scientific name:                        Billardiera coriacea

Group name for Plants

Wudjari                                        Dek

Nyoongar/Baaduk                     Dek

Wudjari: Alternate names are noordjin and nadjin.

Looks like:
Wudjari: A thin vine that may be seen growing on other plants.  Starts with a little white flower.  Not a nut - it is a fleshy oblong case that holds all the seeds - blacky green.
 

Feels like:
Wudjari: Fruit flesh like a ripe jelly with lots of little seeds through it.  Squash it on your tongue and spit the seeds out. Don't crunch on the seeds because they taste like soap.
 

Smells like: 
 

Tastes like:
Wudjari: Flowers - sweet, lovely. They have nectar. Better than kooroop and kamak. Fruit tastes like a tangy dried apricot. Can eat fruit green or ripe. This is very rare and requires a host. Fast growing depending on rain.

Food:
Wudjari: Eat the flower when the fruit is ripe.
 

Medicine:
 

Other:
Wudjari: The vine is used as twine.

Wudjari: It is collected from ochre pits. Can grow on other plants. 

Wudjari: This is very rare and requires a host. Fast growing depending on rain.

Wudjari: Food source.

Birak
Wudjari: Flowers in Summer.
 

Boonaroo
 

Djeran
 

Mookaroo
 

Djilba
Wudjari: Flowers in Spring.
 

Kambarang
Wudjari: Still flowering in late spring/early summer.

Wudjari: Mainly coastal.

Wudjari: Needs a host plant, any type of bush or gum tree that they can climb up onto.

Wudjari: The old people would tell us off for eating the flowers, we should leave them there to fruit and ripen. So the plant goes through the full cycle of reproduction.