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1. A young branch or sucker (5) 4. Flowering shrub (6) (Picture A) 7. Atmospheric pollution (4)

10. Anonymous card sent this month (9) 11. Daisy bush (7) (Picture B)

13. Annual (6)

14. Plant fibre used to make hessian (4) 15. Sow (5)

16. Scented hair dressing (6)

18. Garland, coronet (6)

20. Dried plum (5)

23. Pacific or Atlantic, for example (5) 25. Pungent root eaten raw in salads (6) 26. Covered in dense vegetation (6) 31. Common name for Eucalyptus diversicolor (5)

32. Mixture of butter and flour used in making sauces, etc. (4)

33. Reddish-brown (6)

36. Ornate, florid (7)

37. Peach relative (9)

38. Back in Black band (2/2)

39. Pungent spice or seasoning (6) 40. A woman on her wedding day (5)

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1. Variety of cabbage (5)

2. Plant widely cultivated in Indonesia and Malaysia (3,4)

3. Disney feature based on the fairytale Rapunzel (7)

4. Vitamin C or ascorbic … (4)

5. Wide street or thoroughfare (6)

6. Weedy aquarium plant (6)

8. Citrus fruit preserve (9)

9. Part of a plant inserted into another (5)

12. Spanish grass used for ropes, wickerwork, etc. (7)

16. Genus of 39-across (5)

17. Bristly growth on grasses, etc. (3) 19. Sweet substance made by bees (5) 21. Brush growing beneath taller trees (9) 22. Attached bathroom (7)

24. French vineyard or region (3)

27. The leafstalks of Rheum rhaponticum (7) (Picture C)

28. Raw fish eaten with wasabi (7)

29. Knitted diamond pattern (6)

30. White root vegetable (6)

31. Middle Eastern and Indian ball of meat, paneer or vegetables (5)

34. Melody, motif (5)

35. Mark left on the stem of a plant by the fall of a leaf (4)