gidya

The acacia I have mentioned is called gidya in some places of Australia.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough

The lines of trees resolved itself on closer inspection into close-growing gidya scrub, and long before they reached it the crows had again made their appearance.

The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas Mary Gaunt

There was the range of the Copper-mine hills to the south, lighted by the wan moon; and between and to the west a rough scrub country, desolating beyond words, and where even edible snakes would be scarce; spots of dead-finish, gidya, and brigalow-bush to north and east, and in the trees by the billabong the cry of the cockatoo and the laughing-jackass.

Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 02 Gilbert Parker 1897

There was the range of the Copper-mine hills to the south, lighted by the wan moon; and between and to the west a rough scrub country, desolating beyond words, and where even edible snakes would be scarce; spots of dead-finish, gidya, and brigalow-bush to north and east, and in the trees by the billabong the cry of the cockatoo and the laughing-jackass.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

There was the range of the Copper-mine hills to the south, lighted by the wan moon; and between and to the west a rough scrub country, desolating beyond words, and where even edible snakes would be scarce; spots of dead-finish, gidya, and brigalow-bush to north and east, and in the trees by the billabong the cry of the cockatoo and the laughing-jackass.

Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

It is prepared for use by the seeds being pounded up and mixed with gidya ashes, which the gins chew until it obtains the proper consistency.

Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 1873

The travelling away from the gidya scrubs down the Belyando River soon dispelled all signs of the sickness.

Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 1873

The gidya around seemed to accentuate the complaint, until I became a walking skeleton.

Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 1873