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Rare plants survive cyclone Monica
Northern Territory researchers have found two rare species of plants that survived cyclone Monica, after it was feared they had been destroyed.
They have even discovered new places where the plants are growing.
Researchers feared the category 5 cyclone had wiped out the few hundred boronia plants that grow on the cliffs and sands of Arnhem Land.
They found many of the plants were destroyed, some twisted until their stems splintered and snapped.
Ecologist Dave Liddle says the destruction was random but most of the plants have survived.
"Some of the ravines we'd go into, basically all the vegetation all the trees and bigger shrubs in them had just been flattened," he said.
"So obviously they'd acted as little wind tunnels, and the cyclone's just really ripped through.
"And then you'd go into a ravine next door and the vegetation's pretty much intact."
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