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Dalak-dalak

Blue Devil

Eryngium ovinum

Dalak-dalak is a plant which grows from 10 to 60 centimetres tall with narrow spiny leaves near the plant's base and branches of spiked, ball-shaped, blue-purple flowers at the top of the plant. It flowers between November and February.

It grows best in moist, well drained, clay soil, being found naturally on the basalt plains north-west and west of Melbourne. It requires full sun.

Green Spaces

Here are some spaces around Melbourne we've found this plant!

Acknowledgement of Country

The University of Melbourne and the sites listed on this website are located on unceded land belonging to the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Boonwurrung peoples of the Kulin nation, and we pay our respects to the traditional custodians of the land. As students of the University of Melbourne, we benefit from the continued effects of colonisation. We also recognise that decolonisation is a necessary and active process all must participate in, and we hope that the Native Garden Project can highlight ways that our communities have and can contribute to the physical decolonisation of the land. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

An Arts Discovery Research Project

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