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  1. Abandoned property overtaken by Prickly Pear

    Chinchilla was known as the town at the heart of the eradication of the dreaded prickly pear. In the early 1920s there was more than 25 million hectares of Australia covered with prickly pear. The cactus had been introduced into Australia in 1839 and by 1862 it had reached the Chinchilla area. By the turn of the century it was increasing at a rate of 400 000 hectares a year.

    Black and white photograph of hundreds of cacti surrounding a wooden structure
    A cactus mob stampeding through an abandoned farmhouse in Queensland

  2. Australian cactus tamer

    A black and white photograph of a man in a wide brimmed hat leans against enormous cacti that tower over him at 3-4x his height
    Australian cactus tamer, 1930

  3. The American Invasion of Australia by Cactus

    Slosson, E. E. (1924). The American Invasion of Australia by Cactus. The Scientific Monthly, 19(2), 216–218. http://www.jstor.org/stable/7344