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CLUES ACROSS
2 - - - - - - - - flower (Anthurium andraeanum) exotic plant named after a pink-plumed wading bird (8)
6 Perennial evergreen genus of pot plant succulents used in cosmetics (4)
7 Late-summer-flowering rudbeckia also known as ‘black - - - - Susan’ (4)
8 Lamium maculatum, spotted dead
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9 Trees of the sorbus genus bearing orange-red berries in autumn (6)
11 Botanical name of the sub-shrub commonly called candytuft (6)
15 Month of the dense-growing hosta cultivar, ‘- - - - - - Moon’ (6)
16 Malus sylvestris or - - - - apple, tree with small sour fruits used in jellies (4)
18 Love - - - - bleeding, tassel-flowered annual of the amaranthus genus (4)
19 Fragrant, late-spring-blooming evergreen shrub named after the Scot, Alexander Garden (8)
CLUES DOWN
1 Tree of the sambucus genus producing wine-making berries (5)
2 One of those Prince of Wales’ plumes given as a name to Celosia argentea (7)
3 Traffic light colour and a clumpforming salvia cultivar (5)
4 Lampranthus genus of succulents that includes the violet - - - plant (3)
5 Colour of the fingers of a naturally gifted gardener (5)
10 Deciduous native Asian shrub of which florida is a popular species (7)
12 Former name of Myanmar where Padauk blossom is a national flower (5)
13 New Zealand - - - - - flower, common name for Libertia grandiflora (5)
14 Catkin-bearing deciduous tree otherwise known as Populus tremula (5)
17 Bloom in embryonic form (3)