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1. Green garden vegetable (7)
5. Tropical flowering shrub with bright orange or red flowers (9) (Picture A)
10. Marsh plants with firm stems (5)
11. Piece of old cloth (3)
12. Prepared (poultry, a crab etc.) for cooking or eating (7)
13. Drooping, nodding (botanical) (6)
14. Genus of wax plant (4)
15. Frame for drying clothes (5)
17. Atriplex hortensis or garden … (6)
18. Apple grown from seed (6)
20. Wading bird with a long, curved beak (4)
22. Small fly (4)
25. Evergreen tree yielding an aromatic seed that is used as a spice (6)
26. Mallet or gavel, for example (6)
30. Pomegranates have lots of them (5) 31. Genus of holly (4)
32. Western Australian willow myrtle (6)
34. Circular building with a dome (7)
36. For your information (abbrev.) (3)
37. Long-tailed primate native to Madagascar (5)
38. The tree Eucalyptus populnea (6,3) 39. Primula veris or … (7)
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1. Salad vegetable (6,5)
2. Chilled version of popular hot drink (4,3)
3. Highly alcoholic green liqueur (8)
4. Basil or rosemary, for example (4)
5. Grey and white bird of the family Columbidae (6)
6. Prickly pear or … fig (6) (Picture B)
7. Climbing plant of the buttercup family (8) (Picture C) 8. Donkey (3)
9. Tree related to birch, usually growing in moist ground (5)
16. Develop, mature (5)
19. Grassed area between the front boundary of a block and the road (6,5)
21. Valuable fibre obtained from agaves, bromeliads and other plants (5)
23. Available only at a certain time
(of plants, fruit etc.) (8)
24. Piccabeen or … palm (8)
27. Barely enough (7)
28. White compound used in cookery, medicine etc. (6)
29. Animal introduced into Australia that is dangerous to native fauna (3,3)
30. Low, woody plant (5)
33. One component of brass (4)
35. Male cat (3)