ACROSS
Make fun of, initially, little plant with prickly foliage and stems in genus (6) Period of weather unexpected in spring? Produces chilled , in short (4,4) Plum-like fruit – good to mature (4) Small succulent fruit – put in the ground, we hear (5) Part of a plant … it transpires! (4) Genus of tropical frangipani plant – from Lima, Peru maybe (8) Seed coverings of wood sorrel () plants – sort of lairs (5) Common name for (9) Daisy-like ’s common name – blood-sucking insect on pip (8) Genus of plants in Maranta family (many now in genus ) – partly tropical at heart (8) Plants in the family with spadices and spathes – so arid, maybe (6) ‘Elephant Ears’ plants with edible roots, aka dasheen – do put in seed mixture (6) Saffron is obtained from these autumn-flowering bulbs (8) Term for sweet potato plant cutting – slight mistake? (4) ‘___’, white-flowering with red anthers – partly propagated, I think (5) Fortune-teller’s card almost shows this vegetable in genus (4) Genus of ‘False hellebore’ … arum vert perhaps (8) Semi-cactus dahlia with orange/pink flowers – ‘Beer and lemonade’ (6)
