| BEGONIAS | Flowering plants, named after a French colonial official and botanist, that prefer growing in shade (8) |
| CANARYCREEPERS | Plants named after a bird |
| INDOORCATS | Felines that prefer carpeted trees to real ones (... letters 5-8) |
| CAMELLIA | Genus of Asian flowering plants named after Jesuit missionary Georg Joseph Kamel (8) |
| MAGNOLIA | Flowering plant named after a French botanist (8) |
| BEANSTALK | Proof, to the botanist, that vegetables communicate with each other(9) |
| PROTEA | South African flowering plant named after the Greek god Proteus (6) |
| PRIMULA | Genus of flowering plants named from the Latin for 'first'; oxlip, cowslip, polyanthus etc. (7) |
| HANOI | Asian capital city with a lot of French colonial architecture |
| TIFFIN | Appropriate to turn up before end of French colonial meal (6) |
| PLACEBO | Plant, found by leading pair of botanists, that has an unexplained therapeutic effect |
| GUNNERA | Large-leaved ornamental plant named after a Norwegian bishop and botanist (7) |
| POINSETTIA | Popular Christmas plant named after a US diplomat and amateur botanist |
| THOMAS | A honeysuckle and a rose are among the plants named after horticulturalist Graham ___ (6) |
| FREESIA | Plant named after a German botanist, cultivated for its white, yellow or pink fragrant flowers (7) |
| BURRAWANG | Australian cycad plant named after a mountain in New South Wales (9) |
| DAHLIA | Garden plant named after a Swedish botanist (6) |
| BOUGAINVILLEA | Plant named after a French navigator (13) |
| FLAMINGO | - - - - - - - - flower (Anthurium andraeanum) exotic plant named after a pink-plumed wading bird (8) |
| LOBELIA | Genus of plants named after Flemish botanist Matthias de Lobel (7) |
