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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, 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

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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), 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, a river of New South Wales, Australia * Mulga Queen Community, 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, a town in the United States * Mulga, Ohio, a community in the United States * Mulga Island, an island in Antarctica


People

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


See also

* " Mulga Bill's Bicycle", a poem written in 1896 by Banjo Paterson {{Disambiguation, geo, plant