Crossword ...just for fun!

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1 ‘Eating’ or ‘eater’ apples are also known as ____ apples (7)

6 Fertilised ovule, containing an embryonic plant, found in all flowering plants – and apples! (4)

7 Some forms of cornus (dogwood) and salix (willow) produce a colourful red, yellow or orange ____ in winter (4)

8 It is generally accepted that groups of plants in ___ numbers look more natural (3)

9 Common name for the fraxinus tree (3)

10 This variety of heuchera is also the shortened form of Brazil’s former capital (3)

11 Also known as costmary (Tanacetum balsamita), this scented Eurasian perennial herb has button-like yellow flowers (7)

12 Quercus palustris is the ___ oak, while Prunus pensylvanica is the ___ cherry (3)

13 In the trug he found an exclamation of disgust! (3)

14 The fertilised ovule of 6 across, is known as this

in apples! (3)

15 This small quantity is the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet, as in the cultivar of dionysia: ‘Ewesley ____’ (4)

16 ‘Flower of ____’ is a cooking apple, and the variety which is believed to have fallen on Isaac Newton’s head (4)

17 Genus of perennial flowering plants, often referred to as the windflower (7)

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2 Twining evergreen climbing houseplant with leathery leaves and clusters of highly fragrant, tubular white flowers (11)

3 Genus of flowering plants in the diascia and nemesia family, including the purple bell vine (11)

4 Common name for Nyssa aquatica, a large, long-lived tree that grows in the swamps and floodplains of the southeastern US (5,6)

5 Large, extinct elephant of the Pleistocene epoch, as in Hosta ‘Blue __’ and leek ‘___ Pot Leek’! (7)

9 This apple is appropriate! (7) (anag)