Mulga may refer to:
Flora
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Acacia aneura
''Acacia aneura'', commonly known as mulga or true mulga, is a shrub or small tree native to arid outback areas of Australia. It is the dominant tree in the habitat to which it gives its name ( mulga) that occurs across much of inland Australia ...
'' (mulga or true mulga, a shrub or tree native to Australia)
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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 ...
, its edible gall
* Any of many similar ''Acacia'' species, such as:
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Acacia brachystachya'' (umbrella mulga)
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Acacia citrinoviridis'' (black mulga)
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Acacia craspedocarpa'' (hop mulga)
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Acacia cyperophylla'' (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 ...
, a parrot 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. Despite its common name, it is a member of the genus '' Pseudechis'' (black snake ...
'', also known as the mulga snake
* ''
Pseudechis
''Pseudechis'' is a genus of venomous snakes in the family Elapidae. It contains the group of elapid species commonly referred to as the black snakes. Species of ''Pseudechis'' are found in every Australian state with the exception of Tasmania, ...
weigeli'', also known as the pygmy mulga snake
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Pygmy mulga monitor, a monitor lizard native to Australia
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Mulga dragon
The mulga dragon (''Diporiphora amphiboluroides'') is a species of agamid lizard found in Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia ...
, a lizard native to Australia
Places
* In Australia, alternative term for
the Bush
"The bush" is a term mostly used in the English vernacular of Australia and New Zealand where it is largely synonymous with ''backwoods'' or '' hinterland'', referring to a natural undeveloped area. The fauna and flora contained within this ...
or a wilderness regions; for example "up the mulga"
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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 Q ...
, an Australian woodland or open forest habitat dominated by trees of the species ''Acacia''
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Mulga Lands
The Mulga Lands are an Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, interim Australian bioregion of eastern Australia consisting of dry sandy plains with low mulga (habitat), mulga woodlands and shrublands that are dominated by ''Acacia ...
, an Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia region of Australia
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Mulga Creek, a river of New South Wales, Australia
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Mulga Queen Community, a community Western Australia, Australia
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Mulga, Alabama, a town in the United States
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Mulga, Ohio, a community in the United States
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Mulga Island, an island in Antarctica
* a former name of
Brigalow, Queensland
Brigalow is a rural town and locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Brigalow had a population of 170 people.
Geography
Brigalow is on the Darling Downs. The town is in the north-west of the locality ...
, Australia
People
*
George "Mulga" Taylor (1861–1935), Australian labour leader and MP
See also
* "
Mulga Bill's Bicycle
"Mulga Bill's Bicycle" is a poem written in 1896 by Banjo Paterson. It was originally published on the 25th of July 1896 edition of the '' Sydney Mail'', and later appeared in the poet's second poetry collection ''Rio Grande's Last Race and Other ...
", a poem written in 1896 by Banjo Paterson
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