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- Name some plants and grasses which help protect sand dunes from Erosion? Plants on sand dunes such are very important on beaches. Plants such as the -Hairy Spinifex - Coast dune thistle -Native pigface And the coast fan flower All these plants help hold together sand dunes. They bind tightly together so that the sand is unable to move during times of erosion. The Hairy Spinifex is 1 of the most important plants. It can grow in bare sand and it most importantly has the strength to hold down sand with its root system. The coast fan flower is just like it. This shrubby plant can cover large areas of sand dunes. Native pigface is very salt tolerant and is able to withstand salt spray, strong winds and sand blast. If covered with sand the plant can survive, grow upwards and produce a new plant mat over the old one Lots of other plants help like these kinds of plants. They all have there own unique way of protecting our beaches.

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