Mulga may refer to:

Flora

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Acacia aneura ''Acacia aneura'', commonly known as mulga, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland Australia. It is a variable shrub or small tree with flat, narrowly linear to elliptic phyllodes, cylindrical spike ...

'' (mulga or true mulga, a shrub or tree native to Australia) **

Mulga apple The mulga apple is an Australian bush tucker food, often eaten by the Indigenous Australians of Central Australia. The mulga apple is in fact a combination of plant and animal; the insect gall grows inside the wood of the mulga tree ''(Acacia an ...

, its edible gall * Any of many similar ''Acacia'' species, such as: ** ''

Acacia brachystachya ''Acacia brachystachya'' commonly known as umbrella mulga, umbrella wattle, turpentine mulga, grey mulga or false bowgada, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a erect or spreading, bushy shru ...

'' (umbrella mulga) ** ''

Acacia citrinoviridis ''Acacia citrinoviridis'', commonly known as black mulga, river jam, milhan or wantan, is a tree in the family Fabaceae that is native to western Australia. Description Black mulga typically grows to a height of about and often has a weeping ...

'' (black mulga) ** ''

Acacia craspedocarpa ''Acacia craspedocarpa'', commonly known as hop mulga or the broad-leaved mulga, is a shrub or tree in the family Fabaceae native to central parts of western Australia. Description Hop mulga is a spreading or erect shrubby tree that typically ...

'' (hop mulga) ** ''

Acacia cyperophylla ''Acacia cyperophylla'', commonly known as creekline miniritchie or red mulga, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. The species' range extends across arid and semi-arid regions of Central Australia, from Carnarvon in Western Australia through the ...

'' (red mulga)

Fauna

Mulga parrot The mulga parrot (''Psephotellus varius'') is endemic to arid scrublands and lightly timbered grasslands in the interior of southern Australia. The male mulga parrot is multicolored, from which the older common name of many-coloured parrot is der ...

, bird of southern Australia * ''

Pseudechis australis The king brown snake (''Pseudechis australis'') is a species of highly venomous snake of the family Elapidae, native to northern, western, and Central Australia. The king brown snake is the largest terrestrial venomous snake in Australia.Razavi, ...

'', also known as the mulga snake * '' Pseudechis weigeli'', also known as the pygmy mulga snake * Pygmy mulga monitor, monitor lizard native to Australia * Mulga dragon, lizard native to Australia

Places

Australia

* Alternative term for

the Bush "The bush" is a term mostly used in the English vernacular of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, where it is largely synonymous with hinterlands or backwoods. The fauna and flora contained within the bush is typically native to the regi ...

or wilderness regions; for example, "up the mulga" *

Mulga (habitat) Mulga is a type of habitat composed of woodland or open forest dominated by the mulga tree, ''Acacia aneura'', or similar species of ''Acacia''. Regions It is found across Australia, covering 20% of arid regions, including much of southwestern Qu ...

, an Australian woodland or open forest habitat dominated by trees of the species ''Acacia'' *

Mulga Lands The Mulga Lands are an interim Australian bioregion of eastern Australia consisting of dry sandy plains with low mulga woodlands and shrublands that are dominated by ''Acacia aneura'' (mulga). The Eastern Australia mulga shrublands ecoregio ...

, an Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia region of Australia *

Mulga Creek Mulga Creek is a river of the state of New South Wales in Australia. See also *List of rivers of Australia Rivers are ordered alphabetically, by state. The same river may be found in more than one state as many rivers cross state borders. Lon ...

, a river of New South Wales, Australia *

Mulga Queen Community Mulga Queen is a medium-sized Aboriginal community, located 150 km north west of Laverton in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Laverton. History The permanent buildings making up Mulga Queen w ...

, a community Western Australia, Australia *

Western Australian mulga shrublands The Western Australian Mulga shrublands is a deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion of inland Western Australia. It is one of Australia's two mulga ecoregions, characterized by dry woodlands of mulga trees (''Acacia aneura'' and related species) ...

ecoregion * Former name of

Brigalow, Queensland Brigalow is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Brigalow had a population of 181 people. Geography Brigalow is on the Darling Downs. The to ...

, Australia

Elsewhere

Mulga, Alabama Mulga is a town in western Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is north from the Birmingham suburb of Pleasant Grove. It includes the community of Bayview. Mulga was a company town operated by Birmingham Coal and Iron Company around t ...

, a town in the United States *

Mulga, Ohio Mulga is an unincorporated community in Milton Township, Jackson County, Ohio, United States. It is located east of Wellston at the intersection of Hollingshead Road (County Route 40) and Mulga Road (County Route 39), just off Ohio State Route ...

, a community in the United States *

Mulga Island Mulga Island is a small island off the coast and northeast of Kirkby Head, Enderby Land in Antarctica. Plotted from air photos taken from ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) aircraft in 1956. Mulga is the vernacular name ...

, an island in Antarctica

People

* George "Mulga" Taylor (1861–1935), Australian labour leader and MP