ACROSS
Some think capsicum is a type of mushroom, ! (6) Common name of pink-flowering plant formerly in Persicaria genus – bits rot badly (7) Wildflower aka ‘Crested __ __ grass’ – it's a gold sort (4,4) Graham Stuart ___, renowned rosarian / NT garden advisor (died 2003) Another name for gorse – take it out from within (4) Autumn gentian named after an Ayrshire town – or not, perhaps? (5) Luxuriant … part of (4) Bottom petals of eg laburnum flowers, and undersides of boats (5) Genus of evergreen NZ shrubs with palmate leaves – twisting on an apex (8) Woodland plants also called ‘windflowers’, one means to move (8) One donated … the genus of yucca relative, the century plant (5) Type of maple found in arboreta, certainly! (4) A suitably named curry plant – ‘Omar K’, perhaps (5) A pink, double-flowering hybrid hellebore – worn by ballerina (4) Eg plants grown from suckers or cuttings (6) One of 's common names (4,4) They're also known as wattles – if ‘false’ they're robinias (7) Uses broom – but not the type (6)
