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) **

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 a ...

, its edible gall * Any of many similar ''Acacia'' species, such as: ** '' Acacia brachystachya'' (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 to western Q ...

'' (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 ...

, 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 snakes) ...

'', 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, a ...

weigeli'', also known as the pygmy mulga snake *

Pygmy mulga monitor The pygmy mulga monitor (''Varanus gilleni''), also known as Gillen's monitor or just mulga monitor is a species of lizard in the family Varanidae. Taxonomy A description of the species was presented to the Royal Society of Victoria in 1895 by ...

, a monitor lizard native to Australia *

Mulga dragon The mulga dragon (''Diporiphora amphiboluroides'') is a species of agamid lizard found in Western Australia. The species is up to 250 mm long, the length from snout to vent is 95 mm, with a long, slender tail that ends abruptly. The pa ...

, 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 a ...

or a 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 ...

, 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 ecoregion i ...

, an Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia region of Australia *

Mulga Creek Mulga Creek is a river of the state of New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = ...

, a river of New South Wales, Australia * Mulga Queen Community, a community Western Australia, Australia *

Mulga, Alabama Mulga is a town in western Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It incorporated in 1947. This town is north from the Birmingham suburb of Pleasant Grove. It includes the community of Bayview. At its 2010 census the population was 836, down ...

, a town in the United States *

Mulga, Ohio Mulga is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Milton Township, Jackson County, Ohio, Milton Township, Jackson County, Ohio, Jackson County, Ohio, United States. It is located east of Wellston, Ohio, Wellston at the intersection of H ...

, a community in the United States * Mulga Island, an island in Antarctica * a 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 170 people. Geography Brigalow is on the Darling Downs. The town ...

, Australia

People

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

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