Amateur Gardening

Crossword …just for fun!

ACROSS

This cultivar of white mulberry is also an impure form of quartz, used as a gemstone (5) Poison extracted from the seeds of the castor) (5) Botanically accepted word describing a plant with erect and/or parallel branches as if rising to a pointed top (10) Pull big clod, to make a device for temporarily but firmly binding sheets of paper together! (7,4) (anag)  is the _____ maple! (5)

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