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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)

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