Gamalun: Bardi)
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Flowers in JULY: found on the far side of the College oval |
This small tree bears a green fruit like a miniature
mango. It has a thick, rubbery skin encasing stringy matter which is attached to a large single seed. During the wet (December-March) the mayi can be picked and eaten when yellow. The inside is squeezed out and sucked within the mouth until all taste has gone from the fibres surrounding the seed.
Wankid can also be gathered when it has fallen,
shrivelled up and turned black. The dried fruit and seed can then be pounded, soaked in water and eaten. Once bush honey was added - today sugar.
Wankid can be found in Broome, along Gupungi,
Kavite and Gantheaume Point Roads. In the La Grange area, search along the access road to the community.
PERSOONIA FALCATTA.
Person a botanist. Falcata, shaped like a scythe or sickle.
Common name: Wild Pear.
Aboriginal name : Ngalwayny or Geebung
Uses edible fruit and kernel.
Dried fruit can be infused and fluid used as a drink
infusion from inner wood and bark shavings used as eye wash.
Juice from infused leaves can be drunk for treatment of diarrhoea, chest infections or soar throat.
- Leaves used to treat circumcision wounds.
Wood used for spear throwers, boomerangs and music sticks.
Ngaliwayny, Wild pear
PERSOONIA FALCATA
- Edible yellow to black fruit. Because the seed is hairy these
- Lollies last a long time in the mouth.
- Dried fruit can be put into boiling water to make a drink, or eaten
directly.
- Belongs in the same family (Proteaceae) as………………….and
Banksias.
-The kernel nut is also edible.
-In northern Queensland, aboriginals drink an infusion of leaves and
bark for sore throats and coles. An infusion of the wood was used to treat sore eyes.
WANKID
LOCAL PLANTS
GAMALUN/GEEBUNG
WILD PEAR-Persoonia Falcata
Persoonia Falcata- a prot-eaceae.
Its Bardi name is gamalun and it is also known
as wild pear or geebung.
It has brown, flakery, textured bark and long, thin
leaves. It grows to about six meters and is commonly found in sand or Pindan soil.
The small, yellow flowers appear around August
- October and the edible fruit (yellow when ripe) appears
- Around January – February. The illustration shows
- (a) the fruit and (b) the hairy nut which has a sweet juice and can be chewed.
Persoonia falcata R. Br. Wild Pear or Geebung
Usually a small tree to 6 m, the new growth flushed bright pink to maroon;leaves alternate,glabrous,liner or lanceolate,falcate obtuse or acuminate,contracted into a petiole;flowers yellow,sometimes all axillary but more frequently forming a long leafy raceme with the lower floral
reduced to bracts and growing at the end into a leafy shoot; fruit green turning black on a short stipe, the style incurved.
Common in pindan around Broome and widespread throughout the Peninsula.Also accurs in NT and Qld.There is an A.Cunningham collection from Cygnet Bay.
Bardi name=gamooloon;Nyul Nyul=wongatt or wankid;Yawuru=ngaliwany.Edible fruit usually collected from ground and eaten raw when ripe(yellow);edible seed pounded,mixed with water to make black custard.
A potential horticultural species but seed do not germinate readily.
Flowering August-October;fruiting
December-February.
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