ECOLOGISTS have been greeted with hectares of rare aquatic plants growing over a once-degraded wetland at Reed Bed Swamp in the Guttrum State Forest.

Swathes of aquatic plants including the rare river swamp wallaby grass and water nymph, have sprung up across the wetland near Koondrook after the second delivery of water for the environment in three years.

"This is certainly an uncommon sight, es...