| ELATA | Plant name meaning tall, as in Aralia ___ (5) |
| BANE | Plant name meaning "toxic to" |
| LILLIPUT | Island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, where the inhabitants are 6in tall, as in the cultivars of agapanthus and Tulipa humilis (8) |
| ELANA | Species name meaning 'tall' (5) |
| LUTEA | Latin term for yellow, as in the plant name Corydalis ___ (5) |
| OGHAM | Ancient Celtic alphabet in which each letter is assigned a tree or plant name (5) |
| LILAC | Plant name takes me back (5) |
| BACON | Eggs and - - - - - plant, name sometimes used to refer to trefoil (5) |
| CELLO | Stringed instrument that's often as tall as its seated musician |
| IVORY | Off-white and gold Aralia is around (5) |
| SUMAC | Plant name from the Arabic for "red" |
| HEBEN | Shrubby plant, name for hard old wood |
| MENOT | Words after touch or forget in plant names |
| LONGFELLOW | Poet whose surname meaning "tall one" or "tall companion" is most seemly, for he stands as one of the giants in American literary history (10) |
| TETRAPANAX | Genus of evergreen 1 shrubs in the aralia family, commonly known as the Chinese rice-paper plant (10) |
| FATSIA | Genus of Japanese aralia - as it alters in extremes of flora (6) |
| FALSESARSAPARILLA | Common name for Aralia nudicaulis (5,12) |
| ANEMONE | Genus/common name of 'windflower' plant - name one alternative (7) |
| UDO | Stout Japanese herb (Aralia cordata), the blanched young shoots of which are used as a vegetable and in salads (3) |
| MOA | Bird that grew as tall as 12 feet |
