| BIOME | Community of flora and fauna |
| BLOME | Large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna, as in the 'Rainforest' and 'Mediterranean' structures at the Eden Project in Cornwall (5) |
| CORFU | "Kerkyra" whose array of flora and fauna is described in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals (5) |
| NATURE | Characteristics of flora and fauna (6) |
| LINNAEUS | namer of flora and fauna |
| IOTA | Very small part of flora and fauna outwith capital (4) |
| NATIVES | What do we call items of flora and fauna, indigenous to Australia (7) |
| BENTHOS | Word, from the Greek for "depths", for the assemblage of flora and fauna inhabiting the sea floor (7) |
| AMAZON | South American rainforest containing more species of flora and fauna than any other world ecosystem |
| ECOSYSTEM | Word for a biological community of flora/fauna and the physical environment in which they collectively interact, such as a coral reef, rainforest, river or woodland (9) |
| QUATREFOIL | Sort of flora - and quite decorative? (10) |
| ASA | Botanist Gray, co-author of "Flora of North America" |
| BABAR | Father of Flora, Alexander, Pom and Isabelle |
| NATURALISTS | Students of flora from Darwin and Banks perhaps? |
| SCILLY | Isles of -; an archipelago off the coast of Cornwall noted for flora and fauna including Atlantic grey seals, puffins and scented narcissi (6) |
| BIOTA | Word, from the Greek for "life" or "by way of life", for the animal and plant life, aka flora and fauna, of a given habitat, period or region (5) |
| PAIRS | Fact and fiction and flora and fauna, e.g. |
| DORCAS | First name of the post mistress played by Julia Sawalha in the dramatisation of Flora Thompson's trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford (6) |
| BUTTERCUPS | Trust the cup to be made of bits of flora! (10) |
| FATSIA | Genus of Japanese aralia - as it alters in extremes of flora (6) |
